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A student of history : a novel / Nina Revoyr.

ISBN: 9781980007272
ISBN: 1980007276
Physical Description: 7 audio discs (7 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2019]
Copyright: &#8471;2019

Revoyr, Nina, 1969- (author.). Fannon, Tim, (narrator.). Recorded Books, Inc. (Added Author).

Summary:

Rick Nagano is a graduate student in the history department at USC, struggling to make rent on his South Los Angeles apartment near the neighborhood where his family once lived. When he lands a job as a research assistant for the elderly Mrs. W--, the heir to an oil fortune, he sees it first simply as a source of extra cash. But as he grows closer to the iconoclastic, charming, and feisty Mrs. W--, he gets drawn into a world of privilege and wealth far different from his racially mixed, blue-collar beginnings. Putting aside his half-finished dissertation, Rick sets up office in Mrs. W--'s grand Bel Air mansion and begins to transcribe her journals - which document an old Los Angeles not described in his history books. He also accompanies Mrs. W-- to venues frequented by the descendants of the land and oil barons who built the city. One evening, at an event, he meets Fiona Morgan - the elegant scion of an old steel family - who takes an interest in his studies. Irresistibly drawn to Fiona, he agrees to help her with a project of questionable merit in the hopes he'll win her favor.