| Other Classification Number |
FIC019000 FIC055000 bisacsh
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| Personal Name |
McEwan, Ian.
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| Title Statement |
What we can know [electronic resource]. Ian McEwan.
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| Edition Statement |
Unabridged.
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| Imprint |
Prince Frederick : Recorded Books, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
1 online resource (39 audio files) : digital
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| Playing Time |
11:36:56
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| Content Type |
spoken word spw rdacontent
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| Media Type |
audio s rdamedia
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| Media Type |
computer c rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
online resource rdacarrier
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| General Note |
Unabridged.
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| Participant or Performer Note |
Narrator: David Rintoul.
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| Summary, Etc. |
From the Booker Prize–winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday , a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known. 2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife's birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, 'A Corona for Vivien'. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this poem, a copy of which has never been found, and which remains an enduring mystery. 2119: Just over one hundred years in the future, much of the western world has been submerged by rising seas following a catastrophic nuclear accident. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. In the water-logged south of what used to be England, Thomas Metcalfe, a lonely scholar and researcher, longs for the early twenty-first century as he chases the ghost of one poem, 'A Corona for Vivian'. How wild and full of risk their lives were, thinks Thomas, as he pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the elusive poem's discovery, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a brutal crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well. What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force, a love story about both people and the words they leave behind, a literary detective story which reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost. "A philosophically charged tour de force by one of the best living novelists in English." — Kirkus (starred review)
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| System Details Note |
Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction. OverDrive
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Literature. OverDrive
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Science Fiction. OverDrive
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Electronic books. local
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Rintoul, David.
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| Electronic Location and Access |
http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=165&titleID=11822883
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| Electronic Location and Access |
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| Electronic Location and Access |
https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1694-1/%7B5D0FD676-49A1-4C1C-9D82-E18165BB5271%7DIMG200.JPG
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| Electronic Location and Access |
https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5d0fd676-49a1-4c1c-9d82-e18165bb5271&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
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