CD Audiobook
It's fine by me [sound recording] / Per Petterson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781624061028
- Physical Description: 4 sound discs (ca. 5 hr., 8 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: [Holland, Ohio] : Dreamscape Media, p2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Compact disc. Duration: ca. 05:08:00. Unabridged. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Adam Verner. |
| Summary, etc.: | Arvid befriends a boy named Audun. On Audun's first day of school, he refuses to talk or take off his sunglasses; there are stories he would prefer to keep to himself. Audun lives with his mother in a working-class district of Oslo. He delivers newspapers and talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with Arvid. But he's not sure that school is the right path for him and feels that life holds other possibilities. |
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| Subject: | Families > Fiction. Oslo (Norway) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Audiobooks. |
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Author Notes
It's Fine by Me
Per Petterson was born in Norway on July 18, 1952. He is a trained librarian and before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a bookstore clerk, translator and literary critic. His first work, Aske i munnen, sand i skoa (Ash in His Mouth, Sand in His Shoe), a volume of short stories, was published in 1987. His other works include These are Ekkoland (1989), Det er greit for meg (1992), and To Siberia (1996). He has won numerous awards including the prestigious Norwegian literary prize Brageprisen for In the Wake (2000) and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the UK, the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, and the Norwegian Critics' Award for best novel for Out Stealing Horses (2003). (Bowker Author Biography)
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