- Class Trip Emmanuel Carrere Unabridged Audio Book Horror
- Author: Emmanuel Carrere
- Actor-Narrator: Simon Prebble
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre: Young Adult, Horror
- Format: Audio Cassette
- Edition: Unabridged Library Binding
- ISBN-10: 0788709100
- 3 cassettes / 3.75 hours
- Item No: 95049
A best seller in France and winner of the Prix Femina, this small book is eerie, elegant, and disturbing.
The young hero of Emmanuel Carrere's best-selling novel is little Nicolas, whose school ski outing seems doomed from the start. First, his father (a traveling prosthesis salesman) refuses to let Nicolas take the school bus with the rest of his class because of a recent tragedy in which a number of children burned to death. Then, to make matters worse, he drops off Nicolas but forgets to take his son's suitcase out of the trunk, reducing Nicolas to begging the other children for such bare essentials as a toothbrush and pajamas (a source of particular tension since Nicolas is still accident-prone at night).
Faithful to the strict logic that governs a child's mind, Carrere recounts Nicolas's feverish fantasies stoked by the lurid tales of kidnapping and organ theft he has been told by his father. The fantasies grow frighteningly real when a child from the local village disappears. Sure that the child has fallen victim to one of the organ bandits his father always warns him about, Nicolas convinces a classmate to help him investigate the matter in the best heroic school-boy style. But in this wrenching novel, the fantasy of two young boys fearlessly braving dangers to capture the bad guys gives way to a much simpler, more sinister, more devastating reality. Dramatic, taut with almost surgical intensity, Carrere's depiction of the terrifying anxieties of childhood is a marvel of concentrated emotion. "Class Trip is a haunting tale that will continue to send chills up your spine long after the finial words echo away."
About the Author
Emmanuel Carrere is the author of The Adversary, the novel Gothic Romance, and, most recently, I Am Alive and You are Dead, a biography of Philip K. Dick. He lives in Paris, France.
Recommended for listeners ages 12 and up because of the theme and content. No violence or graphic language.
This is a reclaimed library edition unabridged audio book. It contains typical markings on the cassettes. It has been listened to and no issues were noted. It is in excellent condition except for a few marks where the cover was trimmed by the original owner to remove the labels.
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