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The Barbarian Nurseries audiobook
- By: Héctor Tobar
- Narrator: Frankie J. Alvarez
- Category: Fiction, General
- Length: 15 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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The Barbarian Nurseries Audiobook Summary
The great panoramic social novel that Los Angeles deserves–a twenty-first-century, West Coast Bonfire of the Vanities by the only writer qualified to capture the city in all its glory and complexity
With The Barbarian Nurseries, H+(r)ctor Tobar gives our most misunderstood metropolis its great contemporary novel, taking us beyond the glimmer of Hollywood and deeper than camera-ready crime stories to reveal Southern California life as it really is, across its vast, sunshiny sprawl of classes, languages, dreams, and ambitions.
Araceli is the live-in maid in the Torres-Thompson household–one of three Mexican employees in a Spanish-style house with lovely views of the Pacific. She has been responsible strictly for the cooking and cleaning, but the recession has hit, and suddenly Araceli is the last Mexican standing–unless you count Scott Torres, though you’d never suspect he was half Mexican but for his last name and an old family photo with central LA in the background. The financial pressure is causing the kind of fights that even Araceli knows the children shouldn’t hear, and then one morning, after a particularly dramatic fight, Araceli wakes to an empty house–except for the two Torres-Thompson boys, little aliens she’s never had to interact with before. Their parents are unreachable, and the only family member she knows of is Se+#or Torres, the subject of that old family photo. So she does the only thing she can think of and heads to the bus stop to seek out their grandfather. It will be an adventure, she tells the boys. If she only knew.
With a precise eye for the telling detail and an unerring way with character, soaring brilliantly and seamlessly among a panorama of viewpoints, Tobar calls on all of his experience–as a novelist, a father, a journalist, a son of Guatemalan immigrants, and a native Angeleno–to deliver a novel as broad, as essential, as alive as the city itself.
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The Barbarian Nurseries Audiobook Narrator
Frankie J. Alvarez is the narrator of The Barbarian Nurseries audiobook that was written by Héctor Tobar
Frankie J. Alvarez is a film and television actor best known for his roles as a gangster or thug. He has appeared on such television shows as 24, CSI: Miami, and Entourage, among others.
About the Author(s) of The Barbarian Nurseries
Héctor Tobar is the author of The Barbarian Nurseries
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The Barbarian Nurseries Full Details
| Narrator | Frankie J. Alvarez |
| Length | 15 hours 59 minutes |
| Author | Héctor Tobar |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 24, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781483072647 |
Additional info
The publisher of the The Barbarian Nurseries is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781483072647.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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