![]() ![]() Maggie Shipstead, P enguin Audio, 25h r 16m inĬassandra Campbell and Alex McKenna read Shipstead’s Booker-shortlisted novel about an actor who portrays a female aviator and her attempt to fly around the world in 1950. The author and journalist narrates his eye-opening investigation exposing a global network of corruption that takes listeners from Kazakhstan and Moscow to London and New York. T om Burgis, W illiam C ollins, 10h r 58m in s Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World ![]() The Grapes of Wrath is available from Penguin Audio, 20 hr 58 min. There is also Ma Joad, determined, dignified and resilient in the face of turmoil Pa Joad, big-hearted but broken by all that has befallen the family and Jim Casy, a former preacher and the beating heart of Steinbeck’s book, who challenges injustice at devastating personal cost. Chief among the protagonists is Tom Joad, the second of the six Joad children, who is newly paroled from prison after a four-year stretch for manslaughter, and shocked to find his family packing up to leave. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962. ![]() The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized-and. The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. Marking 120 years since Steinbeck’s birth, this new recording is narrated by the actor Richard Armitage, whose tone is sturdy but solemn, and who expertly navigates the midwest dialect and the book’s multiple voices. Buy a cheap copy of The Grapes of Wrath book by John Steinbeck. ![]()
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