04642cam a2200709 4500 565916672 TxAuBib 20220428120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781427282880 1427282889 f18e2c1f-fadc-48fc-9181-e46fb052d009 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3121350 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Darnielle, John. Universal Harvester [Libby] : A Novel. Macmillan Audio, 2017. missing persons. small towns. literary fiction. family life. Iowa. American Authors. audiobooks. audio books. mysteries. American Literature. contemporary literature. VHS. horror fiction. mystery suspense. best horror novels. contemporary novels. best fiction 2017. audio fiction. washington post best books of the year. npr best books of the year. audio novels. fiction audiobooks. horror audio books. the mountain goats. video stores. audio books for adults. adult audiobooks. audio books horror. audio horror books. audiobooks horror. horror audiobooks. horror in audio books. horror novels audio books. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 159MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 159MB. Fiction. Horror. Literature. HTML:<p>Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. It's a small town in the center of the state—the first <i>a</i> in Nevada pronounced <i>ay</i>. This is the late 1990s, and even if the Hollywood Video in Ames poses an existential threat to Video Hut, there are still regular customers, a rush in the late afternoon. It's good enough for Jeremy: it's a job, quiet and predictable, and it gets him out of the house, where he lives with his dad and where they both try to avoid missing Mom, who died six years ago in a car wreck.</p> <p>But when a local schoolteacher comes in to return her copy of <i>Targets</i>—an old movie, starring Boris Karloff, one Jeremy himself had ordered for the store—she has an odd complaint: "There's something on it," she says, but doesn't elaborate. Two days later, a different customer returns a different tape, a new release, and says it's not defective, exactly, but altered: "There's another movie on this tape."</p> <p>Jeremy doesn't want to be curious, but he brings the movies home to take a look. And, indeed, in the middle of each movie, the screen blinks dark for a moment and the movie is replaced by a few minutes of jagged, poorly lit home video. The scenes are odd and sometimes violent, dark, and deeply disquieting. There are no identifiable faces, no dialogue or explanation—the first video has just the faint sound of someone breathing—but there are some recognizable landmarks. These have been shot just outside of town.</p> <p>So begins John Darnielle's haunting and masterfully unsettling <i>Universal Harvester</i>: the once placid Iowa fields and farmhouses now sinister and imbued with loss and instability and profound foreboding. The audiobook will take Jeremy and those around him deeper into this landscape than they have ever expected to go. They will become part of a story that unfolds years into the past and years into the future, part of an impossible search for something someone once lost that they would do anything to regain.</p> <p><b>This program is read by the author and includes original music.</b></p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-06-26 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/3121350-UniversalHarvester.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f18e2c1f-fadc-48fc-9181-e46fb052d009&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/3121350-UniversalHarvester.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f18e2c1f-fadc-48fc-9181-e46fb052d009&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)