Mobile Library: A Novel
- Author: David Whitehouse
- Narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 7:35:38
Synopsis
From the award-winning novelist David Whitehouse, hailed by The New York Times as “a writer to watch,” a tragicomic adventure about a troubled adolescent boy who escapes his small town in a stolen library-on-wheels.
“An archivist of his mother,” Bobby Nusku spends his nights meticulously cataloging her hair, clothing, and other traces of the life she left behind. By day, Bobby and his best friend Sunny hatch a plan to transform Sunny, limb-by-limb, into a cyborg who could keep Bobby safe from schoolyard torment and from Bobby’s abusive father and his bleach-blonde girlfriend. When Sunny is injured in a freak accident, Bobby is forced to face the world alone.
Out in the neighborhood, Bobby encounters Rosa, a peculiar girl whose disability invites the scorn of bullies. When Bobby takes Rosa home, he meets her mother, Val, a lonely divorcee, whose job is cleaning a mobile library. Bobby and Val come to fill the emotional void in each other’s lives, but their bond also draws unwanted attention. After Val loses her job and Bobby is beaten by his father, they abscond in the sixteen-wheel bookmobile. On the road they are joined by Joe, a mysterious but kindhearted ex-soldier. This “puzzle of people” will travel across England, a picaresque adventure that comes to rival those in the classic books that fill their library-on-wheels.
At once tender, provocative and darkly funny, Mobile Library is a fable about the intrinsic human desire to be loved and understood—and about one boy’s realization that the kinds of adventures found in books can happen in real life. It is the ingenious second novel by a writer whose prose has been hailed as “outlandishly clever” (The New York Times) and “deceptively effortless” (The Boston Globe).
Chapters
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MobileLibrary 01 Title
Duration: 37s -
MobileLibrary 02 Ch1
Duration: 18min -
MobileLibrary 03 Ch2
Duration: 34min -
MobileLibrary 04 Ch3
Duration: 22min -
MobileLibrary 05 Ch4
Duration: 16min -
MobileLibrary 06 Ch5
Duration: 27min -
MobileLibrary 07 Ch6
Duration: 28min -
MobileLibrary 08 Ch7
Duration: 31min -
MobileLibrary 09 Ch8
Duration: 25min -
MobileLibrary 10 Ch9
Duration: 24min -
MobileLibrary 11 Ch10
Duration: 21min -
MobileLibrary 12 Ch11
Duration: 18min -
MobileLibrary 13 Ch12
Duration: 28min -
MobileLibrary 14 Ch13
Duration: 31min -
MobileLibrary 15 Ch14
Duration: 20min -
MobileLibrary 16 Ch15
Duration: 27min -
MobileLibrary 17 Ch16
Duration: 16min -
MobileLibrary 18 Ch17
Duration: 10min -
MobileLibrary 19 Ch18
Duration: 06min -
MobileLibrary 20 Ch19
Duration: 22min