Philomena : a Mother, her Son, and a Fifty Year Search
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Call Number: BOCD 921 Lee, Philomena
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Compact discs.
Unabridged.
"The poignant true story of a mother and the son she had to give away"--Container.
"Now a major motion picture"--Container.
Performance by John Curless.
Fifty years after giving her son up for adoption, Irishwoman Philomena Lee decides to find him, while, on the other side of the Atlantic, her son, a lawyer in the first Bush administration, struggles to find his mother.
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COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Heartbreaking True Story submitted by purchasingqueen on July 24, 2016, 4:35pm Unbelievable true story of a mother and son looking for each other for 50 years. Wonderfully acted by Dame Judi Dench and John Curless.
PUBLISHED
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2013]
Year Published: 2013
Description: 13 sound discs (ca. 15 hrs., 30 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781470392802
1470392801
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Dench, Judi, 1934-,
Curless, John,
Recorded Books, LLC.
SUBJECTS
Lee, Philomena.
Hess, Michael A., -- 1952-1995.
Teenage mothers -- Ireland -- Biography.
Unmarried mothers -- Ireland -- Biography.
Illegitimate children -- Ireland -- Biography.
Adoption -- Ireland -- Biography.
Lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
Politicians -- United States -- Biography.
Parent and child -- Biography.