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The Expectations audiobook

  • By: Alexander Tilney
  • Narrator: Michael Crouch
  • Category: Fiction, Literary
  • Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Publish date: July 16, 2019
  • Language: English
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The Expectations Audiobook Summary

From “a dazzling new voice in American fiction” (Jennifer Egan), a finely drawn portrait of American privilege and a subtle exploration of class, race, and tradition.


St. James is an exclusive New England boarding school known for grooming generations of leaders. Ben Weeks is a true insider — his ancestors helped found St. James, his older brother taught him all the slang, and he’s just won a national championship in squash.

But after fourteen long years of waiting, Ben arrives at school only to find that the reality of St. James doesn’t quite match up with his imaginings. At the same time, his new roommate, Ahmed Al-Khaled, the son of a fabulously wealthy Emirati sheik, can’t navigate the unspoken rules of New England blue bloods. Even as Ben and Ahmed struggle to prove themselves in the place they have revered for so long, each of them must face losing it forever.

Tender, sharp, and evocative, The Expectations is a compelling novel about the pain and treachery of adolescence, and the difficulty — wherever one finds oneself — of truly belonging.

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Narrator Michael Crouch
Length 8 hours 13 minutes
Author Alexander Tilney
Category
Publisher Hachette Audio
Release date July 16, 2019
ISBN 9781549141911

Subjects

The publisher of the The Expectations is Hachette Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary

Additional info

The publisher of the The Expectations is Hachette Audio. The imprint is Little, Brown & Company. It is supplied by Hachette Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781549141911.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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