A long way gone [sound recording] : memoirs of a boy soldier / Ishmael Beah.
Publication details: New York : Audio Renaissance, p2007.Description: 7 sound discs (8.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN:- 1427202303
- 9781427202307
- SDB 68039
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books on CD | Hanover Public Library Shelves | BonCD 966.404 BEAH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31906001023507 |
Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Read by the author.
"This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But it is rare to find a first-person account from someone who endured this hell and survived. In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a riveting story in his own words: how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty"--From publisher's web site.
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