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The Trip to Echo Spring
- On Writers and Drinking
- By: Olivia Laing
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall79
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Performance64
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Story64
In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six of America's finest writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All six of these men were alcoholics, and the subject of drinking surfaces in some of their finest work, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to A Moveable Feast.
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- By HeyDon't. on 01-07-19
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The Trip to Echo Spring
- On Writers and Drinking
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 30-04-19
- Language: English
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James Baldwin
- A Biography
- By: David Leeming
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall195
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Performance176
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Story175
This is a biography of James Baldwin, author, one-time preacher, and civil rights activist. He chose David Leeming, a close friend and colleague, to write his biography and granted him access to his correspondence. Leeming traces his life from his birth in Harlem in 1924 to his self-imposed exile in Europe, his later years as political activist, and his public funeral in 1987.
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Must try harder
- By John Adamson on 03-05-20
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James Baldwin
- A Biography
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 03-03-15
- Language: English
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Latest Readings
- By: Clive James
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance11
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Story10
In 2010,Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his library to his house in Cambridge, where he would "live, read, and perhaps even write". James is the award-winning author of dozens of works of literary criticism, poetry, and history, and this volume contains his reflections on what may well be his last reading list.
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Not Clive reading
- By hobans48 on 08-06-19
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Latest Readings
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-10-15
- Language: English
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Love from Boy
- Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother
- By: Donald Sturrock
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Thomas Judd
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance53
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Story53
'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs . . .' So begins the first letter that a nine-year-old Roald Dahl penned to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, under the watchful eye of his boarding-school headmaster. For most of his life, Roald...
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Dearest Mama
- By Rachel Redford on 20-06-16
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Love from Boy
- Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Thomas Judd
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-06-16
- Language: English
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Siegfried Sassoon
- By: John Stuart Roberts
- Narrated by: Bob Sinfield
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Although it is said that he owed his poetic vision to his Sephardic Jewish roots, Siegfried Sassoon was, in many ways, a conventionally Edwardian squire. A gifted poet, who refused to become part of any literary movement, his poetry shattered the ideals of wartime heroism, and his friendships ranged from Thomas Hardy and Robert Graves to the Sitwells, Rupert Brooke and T.E. Lawrence. In this acclaimed biography, John Stuart Roberts skillfully chronicles Sassoon's life and work, including his homosexuality, his marriage and his quest for a personal religious faith.
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The life of Poet Siegfried Sassoon.
- By gareth on 08-03-24
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Siegfried Sassoon
- Narrated by: Bob Sinfield
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 08-03-22
- Language: English
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Testament of Youth
- By: Vera Brittain
- Narrated by: Sheila Mitchell
- Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall110
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Performance97
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Story99
This classic memoir of the First World War is now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the lives of her whole generation - had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable in the tranquil prewar era.
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Almost impossible to listen to
- By Julia on 12-03-16
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Testament of Youth
- Narrated by: Sheila Mitchell
- Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-01-16
- Language: English
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Confessions
- A Life of Failed Promises
- By: A. N. Wilson
- Narrated by: A. N. Wilson
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance41
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Story42
Known for his journalism, biographies and novels, A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his own early life, his experience of sexual abuse, his catastrophic mistakes in love (sacred and profane) and his life in Grub Street—as a prolific writer. The audiobook begins with his heart-torn present-day visits to Katherine, now for decades his ex-wife, who has slithered into the torments of dementia. At every turn of this reminiscence, Wilson is baffled by his earlier self—whether he is flirting with unsuitable lovers or with the idea of the priesthood.
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A mixed bag
- By Alex on 23-12-22
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Confessions
- A Life of Failed Promises
- Narrated by: A. N. Wilson
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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Masquerade
- The Lives of Noël Coward
- By: Oliver Soden
- Narrated by: Oliver Soden
- Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance34
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Story33
'This is the biography - truthful, sympathetic and thorough - that Coward deserves' DAILY TELEGRAPH The voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in its holder, remain unmistakable. There is rarely a week when one of Private Lives, Hay Fever, and Blithe Spirit is not in production somewhere in the...
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Interesting in parts but long winded in places.
- By Alison St Pierre on 21-04-23
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Masquerade
- The Lives of Noël Coward
- Narrated by: Oliver Soden
- Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 16-03-23
- Language: English
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To the River
- A Journey Beneath the Surface
- By: Olivia Laing
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall119
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Performance105
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Story105
Over 60 years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology, and folklore. Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.
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Wonderful book Terrible narrator
- By Ms M L Vandermerwe on 06-03-20
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To the River
- A Journey Beneath the Surface
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-05-19
- Language: English
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Byron
- A Life in Ten Letters
- By: Andrew Stauffer
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance1
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Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame—and scandal—before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution. He also left behind the vast trove of thrilling letters (to friends, relatives, lovers, and more) that form the core of this remarkable biography.
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Byron
- A Life in Ten Letters
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 28-01-25
- Language: English
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The World of Yesterday
- Memoirs of a European
- By: Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell - translator
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall343
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Performance309
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Story308
Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars. Zweig's passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the brink of extinction. It is an unusually humane account of Europe from the closing years of the 19th century through to World War II, seen through the eyes of one of the most famous writers of his era.
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The Brink of Destruction
- By Rachel Redford on 26-07-17
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The World of Yesterday
- Memoirs of a European
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-05-17
- Language: English
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Palimpsest
- A Memoir
- By: Gore Vidal
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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Story11
This explosively entertaining memoir abounds in gossip, satire, historical apercus, and trenchant observations. Vidal’s compelling narrative weaves back and forth in time, providing a whole view of the author’s celebrated life, from his birth in 1925 to today, and features a cast of memorable characters - including the Kennedy family, Marlon Brando, Anais Nin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Rambling. Doesn’t seem to be written with the reader in mind.
- By The last two times I’ve received this items it has arrived with one of the 6 jars smashed. Perhaps just a coincidence or the manufacturer needs to improve their packaging. on 21-07-25
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Palimpsest
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 28-04-20
- Language: English
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I Wanna Be Yours
- By: John Cooper Clarke
- Narrated by: John Cooper Clarke
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,139
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Performance986
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Story980
This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. This audiobook, read by the author, will be a joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole new generation. John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter...
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Exit the dragon, enter Johnny Clarke
- By papapownall on 23-10-20
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I Wanna Be Yours
- Narrated by: John Cooper Clarke
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 15-10-20
- Language: English
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Savage Beauty
- The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- By: Nancy Milford
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 24 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself. Her voice was likened to an instrument of seduction, and her impact on crowds and on men was legendary. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well.
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Savage Beauty
- The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 24 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 29-03-22
- Language: English
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Hide-and-Seek with Angels
- A Life of J.M. Barrie
- By: Lisa Chaney
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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What kind of man creates a boy who never grows up? More than 100 years after Peter Pan first appeared on the London stage, author J. M. Barrie remains one of the most complex and enigmatic figures in modern literature. A few facts, of course, are widely known: Peter Pan made Barrie the richest author of his time, and he bequeathed the royalties to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. In this brilliant biography, Lisa Chaney goes beyond the myths to discover the fascinating, frequently misunderstood man behind the famous boy.
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Loved loved the book
- By Resonate on 27-09-23
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Hide-and-Seek with Angels
- A Life of J.M. Barrie
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 15-08-23
- Language: English
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Positive Obsession
- The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
- By: Susana M. Morris
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work. As the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science fiction, Octavia Butler was a trailblazer...
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Positive Obsession
- The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 19-08-25
- Language: English
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The Baby on the Fire Escape
- Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
- By: Julie Phillips
- Narrated by: Marnye Young
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance12
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What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own," but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge. With fierce empathy and vivid prose, Phillips evokes the intimate struggles of brilliant artists and writers, including Doris Lessing, Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde, and Alice Neel. A meditation on maternal identity and artistic greatness, Phillips illuminates some of the most pressing conflicts in contemporary women's lives.
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So much juiciness in this book
- By Emilia on 03-09-25
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The Baby on the Fire Escape
- Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
- Narrated by: Marnye Young
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 26-04-22
- Language: English
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Dry
- A Memoir
- By: Augusten Burroughs
- Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall275
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Performance235
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From the New York Times Bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes the story of one man trying to out-drink his memories, outlast his demons, and outrun his past. "I was addicted to "Bewitched" as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the First. When he'd come home from work and Samantha...
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listened twice. love it.
- By G M F on 12-04-18
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Dry
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 20-06-03
- Language: English
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Kay Thompson
- From Funny Face to Eloise
- By: Sam Irvin
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Kay Thompson’s larger-than-life story is an effervescent toast to show business with a shot of Auntie Mame and a twist of The Devil Wears Prada. A multi-threat entertainer and a world-class eccentric, Kay Thompson was the mentor/best friend of Judy Garland, the vocal guru for Frank Sinatra and...
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Kay Thompson
- From Funny Face to Eloise
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 18-08-26
- Language: English
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt
- By: Jon-Jon Goulian
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The vibrant, funny, and heartwarming story of an outcast who becomes an odd man in If you have ever felt like a misfit in school or been paralyzed by your family’s imposing expectations, if you have ever obsessed about your appearance or panicked about choosing a career path, if you have ever...
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 17-05-11
- Language: English
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