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02591aam a22003618i 4500 001 3AF1EAC6401411EFAD2B530A4CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240712010045 008 231024t20242023nyu 000 1 eng 020 $a 9798874623098 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3619.H357 $b L37 2024 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20231024 100 1 $a Shattuck, Jessica, $e author. 245 10 $a Last house $c Jessica Shattuck. 263 $a 2405 264 1 $a New York : $b Harper Audio, $c 2024. 300 $a 10 sound discs )12 hours) ; $b digital. $c 4 3/4" ; 511 $a Read by Maggi-Meg Reed and Mark Bramhall 520 $a Its 1953, and for Nick Taylor, WWII veteran turned company lawyer, oil is the key to the future. He takes the train into the city for work and returns to the peaceful streets of the suburbs and to his wife, Bet, former codebreaker now housewife, and their two children, Katherine and Harry. Nick comes from humble origins but thanks to his work for American Oil, he can provide every comfort for his family, including Last House, a secluded country escape. Deep in the Vermont mountains, the Taylors are free from the stresses of modern life. Bet doesnt have to worry about the Russian H-bombs that haunt her dreams, and the children roam free in the woods. Last House is a place that could survive the end of the world. $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a Its 1968, and America is on the brink of change. Protestors fill the streets to challenge everything from the Vietnam War to racism in the wake of MLKs shootingto the country's reliance on Big Oil. As Katherine makes her first forays into adult life, shes caught up in the current of the time and struggles to reconcile her ideals with the stable and privileged childhood her Greatest Generation parents worked so hard to provide. But when the Movement shifts in a more radical direction, each member of the Taylor family will be forced to reckon with the consequences of the choices theyve made for the causes they believed in. 650 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 650 $a Domestic fiction. 650 $a Oil industries $x Fiction. $x Fiction. 650 $a Protest movements $x Fiction. 650 $a Company lawyer. 700 $a Reed, Maggi-Meg, 700 $a Bramhall, Mark. 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Shattuck, Jessica. $t Last house $b First edition. $d New York : William Morrow, 2024. $z 9780062979919 $w (DLC) 2023049899 941 $a 1 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20240712013423.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3AF1EAC6401411EFAD2B530A4CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search