Jasper Jones / by Craig Silvey ; read by Humphrey Bower.
Publisher number: BAB 120808 | Bolinda AudioPublication details: Tullamarine, Vic. : Bolinda Audio, 2012.Description: 11 sound discs (CD) (12 hr., 54 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. ; in containerISBN:- 9781489395313
- 9781743198254
- A823.4 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Audio Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Audio Books | SIL | Available | 066051 |
Unabridged.
Bolinda Audio: BAB 120808.
Read by Humphrey Bower.
Late on a hot summer night in the tail end of 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan. Jasper takes him through town and to his secret glade in the bush, and it's here that Charlie bears witness to Jasper's horrible discovery. With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fear and suspicion. And in vainly attempting to restore the parts that have been shaken loose, Charlie learns to discern the truth from the myth, and why white lies creep like a curse.