Cloud atlas [a novel]
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Published
Santa Ana, CA : Books on Tape, ℗2005.
Edition
Library ed.
Physical Desc
16 audio discs (72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
Unavailable/Withdrawn
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Published
Santa Ana, CA : Books on Tape, ℗2005.
Format
Unknown
Edition
Library ed.
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 6.5, 27 Points
Level 6.5, 27 Points
Notes
General Note
Subtitle from container.
General Note
Unabridged.
General Note
Compact disc.
Participants/Performers
Read by various readers.
Description
Mitchell weaves history, science, humor, and suspense in six separate but related narratives, each set in a different time and place.
Description
"Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite ... Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter ... From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life ... And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history. But the story doesn end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky."--Publisher's description.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Mitchell, D. (2005). Cloud atlas: [a novel] (Library ed.). Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mitchell, David. 2005. Cloud Atlas: [a Novel]. Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas: [a Novel] Books on Tape, 2005.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas: [a Novel] Library ed., Books on Tape, 2005.
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