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    Written by Paul Fleischman

    Narrated by Full Cast

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    About this audiobook

    Assigned to write an autobiography, high-school senior Robert Radkovitz instead creates a sound portrait of his life as he remembers it. Looking back, he hears his mother's singing, his grandmother's mysteries, Mexican soap operas, Poe, poetry, and, most cherished, the voice of his absent father from a single tape of one of his radio shows.

    Told in a collage of voices, Seek describes Rob's search for his father, a search pursued not through San Francisco's streets, but through the labyrinth of the airwaves. Psychic readers, baseball announcers, pirate DJs, friends, and teachers join a rich, ringing aural autobiography that's as joyfully comic as it is compelling.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 23, 2002
    ISBN9780807208229
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    Paul Fleischman

    Paul Fleischman's novels, poetry, picture books, and nonfiction are known for innovation and multiple viewpoints. He received the Newbery Medal for Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices and a Newbery Honor for Graven Images, and he was a National Book Award finalist for Breakout. His books bridging the page and stage include Bull Run, Seek, and Mind's Eye. For the body of his work, he's been the United States nominee for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award. He lives in California. www.paulfleischman.net.

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    • 4/5
      I loved how the focus of the story was the sounds and the words around him. The idea that we are defined by those things that we encounter on a daily basis without even realizing it (a lot of the time) is fantastic. The entire cast was brilliant and I really enjoyed how the different characters were portrayed. The story was a little hard to follow at first, but once I figured out how it was being read, I really enjoyed it.
    • 3/5
      Would put this as a message book but a good, solid boy-centered book with an interesting enough plot.
    • 5/5
      This has got to be one of the most interesting books I have read recently! Fleischman creates an incredible atmosphere by creating a sound-portrait of a boy's life. Although the book begs to be performed aloud with all its 52 characters, and is in fact available as an audio-book, it is amazing to read the words and to still hear the sounds so clearly. To listen would almost be cheating.