Heavy: An American Memoir [Audiobook] download free by Kiese Laymon
- Listen audiobook: Heavy: An American Memoir
- Author: Kiese Laymon
- Release date: 2018/5/2
- Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781526605757
- Rating: 8.01 of 10
- Votes: 743
- Review by: Mary Marshall
- Review rating: 8.12 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/16
- Duration: 3H8M14S in 256 kbps (51.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-25
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG-4 SLS, WAV, MPEG4, MP3, WMA, WavPack, FLAC (compression ZIP, RAR, TAR.BZ, BZ2, ARJ)
- Total pages original book: 256
- Includes a PDF summary of 24 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 17M50S (4.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Wow. Just wow' Roxane Gay'Unflinchingly honest' Reni Eddo-Lodge'An act of truth-telling unlike any other I can think of' Alexander CheeThe story of the black male experience in America you've never read beforeKiese Laymon grew up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to his career as a young college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother, grandmother, abuse, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing and ultimately gambling. In Heavy, by attempting to name secrets and lies that he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding, Laymon asks himself, his mother, his nation and us to confront the terrifying possibility that few know how to love responsibly, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free.A defiant yet vulnerable memoir that Laymon started writing when he was eleven, Heavy is an insightful exploration of weight, identity, art, friendship and family.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Prose: Non-fiction, Memoirs, Black & Asian Studies
- Download servers: FileTransfer.io, Dropbox, Google Drive, Uploaded, JustCloud, Microsoft OneDrive, Torrent. Compressed in ZIP, RAR, TAR.BZ, BZ2, ARJ
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 18.61 USD
- Dimensions: 135x216x23mm
- Weight: 380g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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