![]() ![]() Maggie Shipstead, P enguin Audio, 25h r 16m inĬassandra Campbell and Alex McKenna read Shipstead’s Booker-shortlisted novel about an actor who portrays a female aviator and her attempt to fly around the world in 1950. The author and journalist narrates his eye-opening investigation exposing a global network of corruption that takes listeners from Kazakhstan and Moscow to London and New York. T om Burgis, W illiam C ollins, 10h r 58m in s Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World The Grapes of Wrath is available from Penguin Audio, 20 hr 58 min. A fine book without inscriptions in a fine unclipped. There is also Ma Joad, determined, dignified and resilient in the face of turmoil Pa Joad, big-hearted but broken by all that has befallen the family and Jim Casy, a former preacher and the beating heart of Steinbeck’s book, who challenges injustice at devastating personal cost. John Atkinson Fine & Rare Books - A first edition, first printing published by Viking Press in 1939. Chief among the protagonists is Tom Joad, the second of the six Joad children, who is newly paroled from prison after a four-year stretch for manslaughter, and shocked to find his family packing up to leave. The book traces the fictional Joad family of Oklahoma as they lose their family farm and move to California in search of a better life. Marking 120 years since Steinbeck’s birth, this new recording is narrated by the actor Richard Armitage, whose tone is sturdy but solemn, and who expertly navigates the midwest dialect and the book’s multiple voices. ![]()
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