- Title:
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The Origin of Me (MP3)
- Written by:
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Bernard Gallate
- Read by:
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Thomas Larkin
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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12 hours 59 minutes
- MP3 size:
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537 MB
- Published:
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March 17 2020
- Available Date:
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March 17 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655660651
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Penguin Audio Australia
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A beguilingly original and satirical debut novel of friendships, imagination, and the bodies we live in.
Lincoln Locke’s 15-year-old life is turned upside down when his parents’ marriage breaks down and he’s thrust into bachelor-pad living with his father and into an exclusive new school. Crestfield Academy offers Lincoln a new set of peers – the crème de la crème of gifted individuals, who also happen to be financially loaded – and a place on the swim relay team with a bunch of thugs in Speedos. Homunculus, the little voice inside his head, doesn’t make life any easier, nor does Lincoln’s growing awareness of a genetic anomaly that threatens to humiliate him at every turn.
On a search for answers to life’s big questions, he turns to the hallowed school library, where he spies a 19th-century memoir, My One Redeeming Affliction by Edwin Stroud, a one-time star of Melinkoff’s Astonishing Assembly of Freaks. As Lincoln slowly reads this peculiar, life-changing book, the past reaches into his present in fascinating and alarming ways. Ways that defy imagination . . .
Audacious, funny and wonderfully inventive, The Origin of Me is a song to friendship, to young love, to the joy of imagination and to celebrating differences.