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1399115529 
Talking book - CD Afraid of the light; read by Robert G. Slade
Year: 2021
Language: English
Type: Talking book - CD
Class Number: CD SPOKEN WORD
Category: Fiction
Publisher: ISIS Audio Books, 2021
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781399115520
Notes:
Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing and on the cusp of 60, he finds himself scrambling to somehow stay afloat in the only Los Angeles work on offer to a man his age - driving for Uber. When one of his rides, a retired professor named Elise, asks to be dropped off outside an abortion clinic where she now volunteers, Brendan finds himself literally driving right into the virulent epicentre of one of the major issues of our time.
Extent: 8 CDs (8 hr., 20 min.), digital, stereo
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