Villages : [a novel by] /
Seventy-year-old Owen Mackenzie does what people his age often do: he dwells on the past. For Owen, this means he obsessively recollects the places he's lived and how these locations functioned as settings for what the women in his life--his mother, two wives, and assorted lovers--gave him. He...
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| Format: | CD Audio Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House Audio,
[2004]
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| Summary: | Seventy-year-old Owen Mackenzie does what people his age often do: he dwells on the past. For Owen, this means he obsessively recollects the places he's lived and how these locations functioned as settings for what the women in his life--his mother, two wives, and assorted lovers--gave him. He feels that these females are what provided life to his life, the material of his true existence, which, in this remembrance, he stretches like a canvas on the framework of the sequence of three villages he called home from childhood in the 1930s to late middle age in the present day. |
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| Item Description: | Subtitle from container. Unabridged. Compact discs. Sound recording. |
| Physical Description: | 8 sound discs (10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Issued also on cassette. |
| ISBN: | 0739315420 9780739315422 |