The view from Mount Joy [a novel]
Record details
- ISBN: 9781415942260 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1415942269 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: New York : Books on Tape, 2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 11:43:19. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Robertson Dean. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 168462 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Grocers -- Fiction Radio broadcasters -- Fiction Women in radio broadcasting -- Fiction Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Fiction |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Humorous fiction. Audiobooks. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
The view from Mount Joy, Lorna Landvik's delightfully quirky and intensely moving new novel, is about a man, a supermarket, the roads not taken, and the great, unexpected pleasures found in living a good life. When hunky teenage hockey player Joe Andreson and his widowed mother move to Minneapolis, Joe falls under the seductive spell of Kristi Casey, Ole Bull High's libidinous head cheerleader, the kind of girl a guy can't say no to, even when saying yes guarantees trouble. Joe balances Kristi's lustful manipulation with the down-to-earth companionship of his smart, platonic girlfriend, Darva. But it is Kristi who will prove to be a temptation (and torment) throughout Joe's life. Years later, having once dreamed of a career in pro hockey or as a globetrotting journalist, Joe can't believe that life has deposited him in the aisles of Haugland Foods. But he soon learns that being a grocer is like being the mayor of a small town: His constituents confide astonishing things and always appreciate the value of a hard-to-pass-up special, a free toy for a well-behaved youngster, a pie for the best rendition of "Alfie," or simply Joe's generous dispensing of the milk of human kindness