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Title details for Everything Matters! by Ron Currie - Available

Everything Matters!

by Ron Currie
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You alone know that the world will end thirty-six years after your birth. Do you succumb to nihilistic apathy? Use your singular knowledge to save mankind? To what end do you live your life?
      
While still in his mother’s womb, Junior Thibodeau is encoded with a prophecy: in thirty-six years a comet will obliterate life on Earth. Born to a working-class family in rural Maine, he comes of age in the shabby-decadent eighties, a time of Atari, baseball cards, pop Catholicism, and cocaine, all the while grappling with one question: Does anything I do matter? While Junior searches for meaning in a world only he knows is doomed, the voice that has accompanied him since conception appraises his choices–from sibling rivalry over the cable box to first love in grade school; from crazed misadventures in Chicago to an all-out attempt to cheat death itself. Junior’s loved ones, too, reckon with lives that cast his existential crisis into sharp relief: his anxious mother; his older brother, a child cocaine addict turned pro-baseball savant; his exalted father, whose mortal illness summons the best and worst in his sons; and Amy, the love of Junior’s life and a North Star to his journey through romance and heartbreak, drug-addled despair, and superheroic feats that might save humanity.

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  • Release date

    July 7, 2009

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415964712
      • File size: 374218 KB
      • Duration: 12:59:37

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Since he was in the womb, Junior Thibodeau has known the exact time and method that the world will end. Growing up with that terrible certainty, will anything he does matter? He, and the listener, learn that everything matters. Anyone who enjoyed THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE will enjoy this literate, almost poetic, science-fiction and romance story in which the end of the world is the least important idea. Featuring a half-dozen characters, played by various actors, the story is told by an unidentified omniscient narrator, played by Mark Deakins. His kindly but firm voice carries the tone of the book beautifully, despite its somewhat odd construction. Abby Craden, Lincoln Hoppe, and the other narrators create a powerful audio experience. The emotional performances throughout make EVERYTHING MATTERS unforgettable. M.S. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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  • English

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