Monday, December 22, 2003 through Friday, January 30, 2004. Read by Karl Schmidt.
Set in the early 1960s, Enger’s debut novel is narrated by eleven-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy whose close-knit family is broken apart after the oldest son, Davy, commits a crime of passion and becomes a fugitive. Reuben, his father and younger sister become immersed in a series of mystical events as they follow Davy’s trail across the northern United States.
(Grove/Atlantic; ISBN-10: 0802139256)
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Theme: Beethoven: Sonata # 10 in G Major, Op 96; Augustin Dumay, violin; Maria Joao Pires, piano (DG 471 495-2)
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