| At Night We Walk in Circles Contributor(s): Alarcon, Daniel (Author), Duran, Armando (Read by) |
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ISBN: 148293101X ISBN-13: 9781482931013 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $29.66 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.2" W x 5.9" (0.60 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The breakout book from a prizewinning young writer: a breathtaking, suspenseful story of one man's obsessive search to find the truth of another man's downfall Nelson's life is not turning out the way he hoped. His girlfriend is sleeping with another man; his brother has left their South American country and moved to the United States, leaving Nelson to care for their widowed mother; and his acting career can't seem to get off the ground. That is, until he lands a starring role in a touring revival of The Idiot President, a legendary play by Nelson's hero, Henry Nunez, leader of the storied guerrilla theater troupe Diciembre. And that's when the real trouble begins. The tour takes Nelson out of the shelter of the city and across a landscape he's never seen, which still bears the scars of the civil war. With each performance Nelson grows closer to his fellow actors, becoming hopelessly entangled in their complicated lives until, during one memorable performance, a long-buried betrayal surfaces to force the troupe into chaos.Nelson's fate is slowly revealed through the investigation of the narrator, a young man obsessed with Nelson's story--and perhaps closer to it than he lets on. In sharp, vivid, and beautiful prose, Alarcon delivers a compulsively readable narrative and provocative meditation on fate, identity, and the large consequences that can result from even our smallest choices. |
Contributor Bio(s): Alarcon, Daniel: - Daniel Alarcon is the author of War by Candlelight, a finalist for the 2005 PEN/Hemingway Award, and Lost City Radio, named one of the best novels of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle and Washington Post, among others. His writing has appeared in McSweeney's, n+1, and Harper's, and he has been named one of the New Yorker's "20 under 40." He lives in Oakland, California. Duran, Armando: -Armando Duran has appeared in films, television, and regional theaters throughout the West Coast. For the last decade he has been a member of the resident acting company at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In 2009 he was named by AudioFile as Best Voice in Biography and History for his narration of Che Guevara. A native Californian, he divides his time between Los Angeles and Ashland, Oregon. |