04469cam a2200421 4500 233568074 TxAuBib 20150806120000.0 ||||||s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781598875263 1598875264 c32c0bb6-055d-462d-99ba-db3d9402518b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 134200 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bloom, Amy, 1953- Away [Libby Audiobook]. HighBridge Company, 2007. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 220MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 220MB. HTML:<p><i>Moll Flanders</i> in America, this epic, intimate novel follows a young Russian immigrant determined to make her way - and find her daughter - in the hip, harsh 1920s.</p> <p>On a morning in 1924, a young woman rises from the floor of her family's small home in Belorussia to find her parents and her husband slaughtered beside her and her infant daughter, Sophie, missing. When her aunt tells her the baby is dead, Lillian emigrates to America. She is working as a seamstress at the Yiddish Theater and enjoying café society when a cousin arrives and insists that her daughter is still alive - in Siberia.</p> <p>Lillian cannot stop dreaming of Sophie; she feels she must get to Russia, yet she can't afford the passage. Her only friend, an actor turned tailor, steals atlases from the New York Public Library and sews them into an overcoat for her. She crosses North America by rail, truck, and foot, encountering drifters, wardens, pimps, missionaries, and tattoo artists. From Dawson City, Alaska, she sets sail for Russia. She falls in love, falls in with the wrong people, leaps before she looks, hopes hard, and refuses to give up.</p> <p>Inspired by a true story, <i>Away</i> is <i>Moll Flanders</i> in America and Odysseus in the Jazz Age: big, wide, brilliantly imagined, unexpectedly funny, and unforgettable.</p> <p>Copyright © 2007 by Amy Bloom. Recorded by arrangement with Random House, an imprint of Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.</p>. Double richness results when Bloom's novel is read in the lush voice of Barbara Rosenblat. Rosenblat's performance enhances the story of immigrant Lillian Leyb, who flees her Russian village after Christians massacre her Jewish family. Lillian is settling in New York when she learns that her daughter, Sophie, may be alive in Russia. Lillian travels to Siberia, along the way befriending people like Gumdrop Brown, a resilient prostitute from Seattle's Skid Row, and John Bishop, who is on the run from an accidental killing and living in the Yukon. Rosenblat's characterizations are vivid as she shifts seamlessly from Gumdrop's accent to Bishop's plainer speech. Historical references are plentiful, and the epic nature of the two-year journey will make listeners grateful for Rosenblat's experienced reading. S.W. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books. HTML:<i>The New Yorker</i>. Any new book by Amy Bloom is a cause for celebration. HTML:<i>The Times of London</i>. Fiction. Drama. Media Type: Audiobook. Notable Books for Adults. Listen Up Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-05 20:00:03. Rosenblat, Barbara. (p) 2007 HighBridge Company. http://nh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=c32c0bb6-055d-462d-99ba-db3d9402518b http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1294-1/134200-Away.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1294-1/134200-Away.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C32C0BB6-055D-462D-99BA-DB3D9402518B&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1294-1/134200-Away.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1294-1/134200-Away.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C32C0BB6-055D-462D-99BA-DB3D9402518B&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)