|
Author : Kathleen Norris
Performed By : Sandra Burr
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
8 hours 12 minutes
Type : Autobiography Arts & Drama
Download Price : $24.95
The book her devoted readers have been waiting for. At last, New York Times betselling author Kathleen Norris's first continuous narrative . . .a story of sex, drugs, and poetry.
After spending her high school years in Hawaii, Kathleen Norris was woefully unprepared for Bennington College in the 1960s, with its culture of drugs, sex, and bohemianism. But it was also at Bennington that she discovered her great love of poetry, which carried her to New York City at a time when a new generation of poets was emerging and shaking up the establishment.
Working at the Academy of American Poets for her beloved mentor, Elizabeth Kray, and hanging out at clubs with Andy Warhol's crowd at night, Norris found herself immersed in an exciting and emotionally turbulent new world. Her memoir of that time - of her friendships and encounters with poets, including Jim Carroll, Denise Levertov, Gerard Malanga, Erica Jong, James Merrill, Stanley Kunitz, and James Wright - is an inspiring tribute to poetry and a stunning evocation of time and place. Her tenuous balancing act on the bridge between naïve experimentation and indirection and the more focused responsibilities of adulthood, makes for a dramatic and illuminating account of coming-of-age at a tumultuous moment in our history.
"Through three bestselling books published over the past six years, Kathleen Norris has captured [readers'] hearts and fed their souls." - Common Boundary
Other titles you may be interested in
Author : Bill Bryson
Performed By : Kerry Shale
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
2 hours
Type : Humor Comedy Autobiography
Download Price : $18.49
Travel through small-town America with this popular BBC Radio reading. More info...
|
Author : Tony Benn
Performed By : Tony Benn
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
1 hour 55 minutes
Type : Politics Autobiography
Download Price : $18.49
A second volume of labour MP Tony Benn's behind the scenes revalations first broadcast on BBC radio 4... More info...
|
Author : Ted Conover
Performed By : Ted Conover
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
10 hours
Type : Autobiography
Download Price : $24.95
The author's adventures riding the rails with America's hoboes. More info...
|
Author : Helen Keller
Performed By : Mary Woods
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
7 hours
Type : Autobiography
Download Price : $16.95
A serious illness destroyed Helen Keller’s sight and hearing at the age of two. At seven, she was helped by Anne Sullivan, her beloved teacher and friend. Through sheer determination and resolve, she learned to speak and prepared herself for entry into prep school by age sixteen. Later she... More info...
|
Author : Alice Sebold
Performed By : Alice Sebold
Published By : Simon & Schuster
9 hours 30 minutes
Type : True Crime True Crime Arts & Drama Autobiography
Download Price : $39.95 $19.95
The critically acclaimed memoir from the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of the Lovely Bones. More info...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
|
|