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Telephone
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Telephone is an astonishing story of love, loss and grief from Percival Everett, author of The Trees, Dr No and Erasure (now an Oscar-nominated film).
Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in an incredibly niche field, he spends his days playing chess with his daughter, trading puns with his wife as she does yoga, and dodging committee work at the college where he teaches.
After his daughter is diagnosed with a fatal illness, Wells finds a cryptic plea for help tucked into a secondhand jacket bought online. Desperately seeking a way avoid his newfound sense of powerlessness, he embarks for New Mexico on a quixotic rescue mission.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.
Critic reviews
'Achingly beautiful prose' (Los Angeles Times)
'A spellbinding, heartbreaking tale' (Publishers Weekly)
'[Percival Everett's] books always feel like an encounter with substantive, playful thinking . . . truly exceptional and memorable. . . sad, affecting and marvelous.' (New York Times)