- Title:
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The Nix (MP3)
- Written by:
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Nathan Hill
- Read by:
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Ari Fliakos
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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2
- Duration:
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21 hours 45 minutes
- MP3 size:
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901 MB
- Published:
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August 28 2017
- Available Date:
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August 28 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult - Explicit
- ISBN:
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9781509877263
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
'Hill has so much talent to burn that he can pull off just about any style, imagine himself into any person and convincingly portray any place or time ... hugely entertaining and unfailingly smart.'
The New York Times Book Review
With sharp humour and a fierce tenderness, The Nix explores the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change.
Meet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. He hasn't seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet and inflames a divided America. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she's facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel's help.
As Samuel begins to excavate his mother's – and his country's – history, the story moves from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street, back to Chicago in 1968 and, finally, to wartime Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. Samuel will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about his mother – a woman with an epic story of her own, a story she has kept hidden from the world.
'A grand entertainment, smart and well-paced, and a book that promises good work to come.'
Kirkus Reviews, starred
'Compulsive and crazily entertaining.'
The Observer