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    The Signal
    The Signal
    The Signal
    Audiobook5 hours

    The Signal

    Written by Ron Carlson

    Narrated by T. Ryder Smith

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Well known for his short stories, critically acclaimed author Ron Carlson has been featured in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories. Carlson has also won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award, and the 1993 Ploughshares Cohen Prize. Here he captivates audiences with a compelling novel no listener will soon forget.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 28, 2009
    ISBN9781440718175
    The Signal
    Author

    Ron Carlson

    Ron Carlson is the author of several short story collections and books of fiction and poetry. Return to Oakpine is his most recent novel. His works have appeared in Harper’s, the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, as well as The Best American Short Stories, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, and other journals and anthologies; they have been performed on NPR’s “This American Life” and “Selected Shorts.”

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