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October Mourning
- A Song for Matthew Shepard
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford, Luke Daniels, Tom Parks, Nick Podehl, Kate Rudd, Christina Traister
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 09-25-12
- Language: English
- Publisher: Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
Regular price: $16.09
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Audie Award Nominee, Multi-voiced Performance, 2013
On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay 21-year-old University of Wyoming student named Matthew Shepard was lured from a bar by two young men, then savagely beaten, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, and left to die. Five days later, Lesléa Newman arrived on campus to give the keynote speech for the University of Wyoming’s Gay Awareness Week. October Mourning is Lesléa Newman’s deeply personal response to the events of that tragic day and its brutal aftermath. This work of poetic imagination explores the impact of the vicious crime through fictitious monologues from various points of view, including the fence to which Matthew was tied, the deer that kept watch beside him, and even Matthew himself.
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