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Nobody's Empire
- Author
- Stuart Murdoch
- Narrator
- Stuart Murdoch
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 8 October 2024
- Run Time
- 13 hours 30 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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It's the early 1990s in Glasgow, and Stephen - music loving romantic - has emerged from a lengthy hospital stay diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, a little-understood disease that has robbed him of any prospects of work, a social life or independent living. Meeting fellow strugglers, who the world seems to care less and less for, they form their own support group and try to get by as cheaply and as painlessly as possible.
Finding that he has the ability to write songs, albeit in a slow and fledgling way, Stephen wakes to the possibility of a spiritual life beyond the everyday, and feels a calling for someplace else. Leaving Glasgow in search of a cure in the mythic warmth of California, Stephen and his friend Richard float between hostels, sofas, and park benches. Could the trip really offer them both a new-world reinvention?
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Details
- Author
- Stuart Murdoch
- Narrator
- Stuart Murdoch
- Duration
- 13 hours 30 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 October 2024
- ISBN
- 9780571391769
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
It's the early 1990s in Glasgow, and Stephen - music loving romantic - has emerged from a lengthy hospital stay diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, a little-understood disease that has robbed him of any prospects of work, a social life or independent living. Meeting fellow strugglers, who the world seems to care less and less for, they form their own support group and try to get by as cheaply and as painlessly as possible. Finding that he has the ability to write songs, albeit in a slow and fledgling way, Stephen wakes to the possibility of a spiritual life beyond the everyday, and feels a calling for someplace else. Leaving Glasgow in search of a cure in the mythic warmth of California, Stephen and his friend Richard float between hostels, sofas, and park benches. Could the trip really offer them both a new-world reinvention?
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