Title |
Quicker than the eye
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Names |
Bradbury, Ray.
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Book Number |
DBC15583
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Title Status |
Active
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Medium |
Digital Books
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Download Link |
Downloadable talking book.
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Annotation |
The range of the 21 stories in this collection show Ray Bradbury's mastery of the short story. Realism and fantasy exist side by side here. Adult. Unrated.
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General Notes |
Available from BARD courtesy of the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library.
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Local Notes |
Twenty-one tales. In The Very Gentle Murders, two very old people scheme to murder each other, while Last Rites is on a man who travels back in time to comfort big name writers not famous in their day to assure them they will be so after their death.-- (Source of description not identified).
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Narrator |
Sherburn, Tim.
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Length |
7 hours, 33 minutes
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Local Subject |
Science fiction - SF
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Fantasy - FA
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Short stories - SS
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Adult book - AD
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Fiction - FI
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Male narrator - MN
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Produced at WTBBL - PAW
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LC Subject |
Fiction
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Audience Notes |
A NLS/BPH
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Call Number |
813.54 AFI
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Language |
English
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Contents |
Unterderseaboat Doktor -- Zaharoff/Richter Mark V -- Remember Sascha? -- Another fine mess -- The electrocution -- Hopscotch -- The Finnegan -- That woman on the lawn -- The very gentle murders -- Quicker than the eye -- Dorian in excelsus -- No news, or what killed the dog? -- The witch door -- The ghost in the machine -- At the end of the ninth year -- Bug -- Once more, legato -- Exchange -- Free dirt -- Last rites -- The other highway.
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Released |
1997
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Publication Info |
Seattle : Thorndike Press 1997
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Original Publication |
Recorded from: Thorndike, Me. : Thorndike Press, 1997. 9780786209453
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