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The Hue and Cry at Our House audiobook
- By: Benjamin Taylor
- Narrator: Benjamin Taylor
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
- Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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The Hue and Cry at Our House Audiobook Summary
The award-winning memoir of one tumultuous year of boyhood in Fort Worth, Texas, opening with a handshake with JFK, and recalling the changes and revelations of the months that followed.
Winner of the LA Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, and a New York Times Editor’s Choice.
“A marvel of a book—elegant, touching, singular.” —Mary Karr
“Brief and moving . . . An elegantly written book, erudite, perceptive and at times painfully candid.”—Moira Hodgson, Wall Street Journal
After John F. Kennedy’s speech in front of the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on November 22, 1963, he was greeted by, among others, an 11-year-old Benjamin Taylor and his mother waiting to shake his hand. Only a few hours later, Taylor’s teacher called the class in from recess and, through tears, told them of the president’s assassination. From there Taylor traces a path through the next twelve months, recalling the tumult as he saw everything he had once considered stable begin to grow more complex. Looking back on the love and tension within his family, the childhood friendships that lasted and those that didn’t, his memories of summer camp and family trips, he reflects upon the outsized impact our larger American story had on his own.
Benjamin Taylor is one of the most talented writers working today. In lyrical, translucent prose, he thoughtfully extends the story of twelve months into the years before and after, painting a portrait of the artist not simply as a young man, but across his whole life. As he writes, “[A]ny twelve months could stand for the whole. Our years are so implicated in one another that the least important is important enough . . . Any year I chose would show the same mettle, the same frailties stamping me at eleven and twelve.”
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The Hue and Cry at Our House Full Details
| Narrator | Benjamin Taylor |
| Length | 3 hours 40 minutes |
| Author | Benjamin Taylor |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 30, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781524781101 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Hue and Cry at Our House is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: fort worth, texas, 1960's, 1960s, gay, growing up, boyhood, boyhood memoir, childhood memoir, coming of age, jewish diaspora, John f. kennedy, barry goldwater, lyndon johnson, asbergers, cuban missile crisis, brothers, brotherhood, biography, biographies, autobiographies, biographies and memoirs, memoirs, memoir, autobiography, literary gifts, literature, biographies of famous people, memoir books, autobiography books, literary biographies, american literature, family, americana, great depression, essays, race, music, culture, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Biography & Autobiography, Cultural Heritage, Biography & Autobiography, Literary The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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The publisher of the The Hue and Cry at Our House is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781524781101.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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