CD Audiobook
Driving on the rim
Record details
- ISBN: 0792774396 :
- ISBN: 9780792774396 :
- ISBN: 9780792774396
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Physical Description:
10 sound discs (12 hr., 44 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc
sound recording - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: North Kingstown, R.I. : AudioGO, [2010], p2010.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Compact discs. "A novel." "Sound Library"--Container. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Narratated by Traber Burns. |
| Summary, etc.: | Berl Pickett is a smalltown doctor whose ill-advised decision to try to cover up an old friend's suicide attempt leads to dire consequences when she later dies from her injuries: his clinic privileges are suspended and he faces a possible criminal negligence charge. With plenty of time on his hands, Berl reverts to his former profession of house painter. Between jobs, he contemplates his past--seduced at 14 by his aunt, professionally inspired by a kindly doctor who alone saw the potential in him--and contends with a couple of women: Jocelyn, a pilot with a shady acquaintance, and colleague Jinx Mayhall, a quiet beauty who discomfits him with her pointed inquiries into his character. |
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| Subject: | Physicians Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction Self-actualization (Psychology) Fiction Psychological fiction Picaresque literature |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Easton Public Library | ACD MCGUANE, THOMAS (Text) | 37777115263386 | Adult Fiction CD | Available | - |
Driving on the Rim
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Summary
Driving on the Rim
The unforgettable voyager of this dark picaresque is I. B. Berl Pickett, MD, whose die was probably cast the moment his mother thought to name him after Irving Berlin. Other insults piled on apace thereafter: the spasms of Pentecostal Sunday worship; the social debilitation of following his parents' itinerant rug-shampooing business; the erotic initiation at the hands of his aunt. It's hard to imagine what would have become of him had he not gone to medical school. But there must be meaning to existence beyond professional accreditation, and though scantly equipped, Berl Pickett has been on a mission to find it, despite being charged with negligent homicide in the death of his former lover, a business that lays bare the true benefits of small-town living.
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