The remains of the day
Record details
- ISBN: 1452608350
- ISBN: 9781452608358
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Physical Description:
7 sound discs (480 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc
sound recording - Edition: Unabridged ; Retail ed.
- Publisher: [Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Media, p2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from container. Compact discs. Duration: 8:00:00. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Simon Prebble. |
Summary, etc.: | It is the summer of 1956, and the ageing butler of Darlington Hall takes a rare holiday. But it is a journey that will also take him deep into his past. The Remains of the Day is a remarkable story: a man's exploration of his own life, and his heart-breaking attempt to make sense of it. |
Target Audience Note: | General adult. |
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Subject: | FICTION Literary FICTION General Country homes Fiction Household employees Fiction England Fiction |
Genre: | Audiobooks. |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Brookfield Library | CD F/ISHIGURO (Text) | 34029122249294 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Hotchkiss Library - Sharon | Aud Fic Ish (Text) | 33660104842317 | Adult Fiction CD | Available | - |
Killingworth Library Association | CD ISH (Text) | 33420145234390 | Adult Audio Book | Available | - |
Electronic resources
Author Notes
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan on November 8, 1954. In 1960, his family moved to England. He received a bachelor's degree in English and philosophy from the University of Kent in 1978 and a master's degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in 1980. He became a British citizen in 1982. His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, received the Winifred Holtby Award from the Royal Society of Literature. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, received the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1986. His third novel, The Remains of the Day, received the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989 and was adapted into a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. His other works include The Unconsoled, When We Were Orphans, Never Let Me Go, Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, and The Buried Giant. He was awarded the OBE in 1995 for services to literature and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 1998. He received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. He has also written several songs for jazz singer Stacey Kent and screenplays for both film and television. (Bowker Author Biography)