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A change in altitude [electronic resource] / Anita Shreve.
Newlyweds Margaret and Patrick join a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and during their harrowing ascent, a horrific accident occurs. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the African mountain and how these events have transformed her and her marriage, perhaps forever.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781415964187 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1415964181 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Publisher: [New York] : Books on Tape, 2009.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 9:17:36. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Anna Stone. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 133551 KB; MP3 file size: 261666 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Newlyweds > Fiction. Accidents > Fiction. Married people > Fiction. Kenya > Fiction. |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Domestic fiction. Audiobooks. |
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Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventureâa year living in Kenya. While Patrick practices equatorial medicine, Margaret works as a photojournalist. Shuttling between tony expatriate suburbs and squalid shantytowns, Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesnât know about the complex mores of her new home, and about her own husband.Â
A British couple invites the newlyweds to join them on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and they eagerly agree. But during their harrowing ascent, the unthinkable happens. In a reckless moment, a horrific accident occurs, and a life is claimed. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how these events have transformed her and her marriage, perhaps forever.
Revealing and intimate, A Change in Altitude illuminates the inner landscape of a couple, the irrevocable impact of tragedy, and the elusive nature of forgiveness.
