K E M. (Rampallion) reviewed on 7/31/2005 + 158 more book reviews

Surprising and amazing radio essays about big and small events in North American life. Included are:

* a children's funeral service for a pet turtle

* a cardboard disk recorded by Tennessee Williams in a New Orleans penny arcade

* stories and songs of Cuban cigarmakers (narrated by Andy Garcia)

* carnival talkers

* fishmongers' sales pitches

* the sounds of the Northern Lights

* the life work of an agoraphobic professor who recorded thousands of everyday sounds within one ZIP Code in New York City

Two cassettes, about two and a half hours total.

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