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A New York Times Notable Book
A revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the “star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful” (NPR).
Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and funny, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential listening. This new edition of award-winning author Kiese Laymon’s first work of nonfiction looks inward, drawing heavily on the author and his family’s experiences, while simultaneously examining the world—Mississippi, the South, the United States—that has shaped their lives. With subjects that range from an interview with his mother to reflections on Ole Miss football, Outkast, and the labor of Black women, these thirteen insightful essays highlight Laymon’s profound love of language and his artful rendering of experience, trumpeting why he is “simply one of the most talented writers in America” (New York magazine).
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- Duración: 6 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,109
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5,522
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,498
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Thick
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- Narrado por: Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,772
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,522
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,502
Smart, humorous, and strikingly original essays by one of “America’s most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time.” (Rebecca Traister) In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - embraces her venerated role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom, and Black Twitter snark about all that is right and much that is wrong with this thing we call society.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A different perspective
- De ANNE en 08-13-19
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Long Division
- A Novel
- De: Kiese Laymon
- Narrado por: Ruffin Prentiss III, Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two interwoven stories. In the first, it’s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he’s sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie. Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. He learns that one of the book’s main characters is also named City Coldson—but Long Division is set in 1985.
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5 out of 5 stars
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- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 699
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 633
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 632
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Very nice!
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- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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5 out of 5 stars
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De: James Baldwin, y otros
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- A Novel
- De: Sally Rooney
- Narrado por: Éanna Hardwicke
- Duración: 16 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,282
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,199
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,199
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I felt a lot of empathy towards the excellently developed characters.
- De Hanoverian girl en 09-29-24
De: Sally Rooney
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- 10-20-24
Kiese Laymon is the GOAT.
Everything Kiese Laymon touches turns to gold. I am forever a fan. I read this book years ago, but couldn’t pass up listening to it in his voice. It was even better the second go round. Do yourself a favor and ready anything and everything he writes. You’ll be a better human for it.
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