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The Stone World audiobook
- By: Joel Agee
- Narrator: Armando Duran
- Category: Coming of Age, Fiction
- Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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The Stone World Audiobook Summary
From the son of acclaimed author James Agee comes a haunting novel depicting an American boy’s childhood in Mexico, ensconced in a world comprised of communist European exiles, local union activists, street children, and avant-garde artists like Frida Kahlo.
Joel Agee’s hallucinatory first novel begins in a house with a large garden in an unnamed Mexican town in the late 1940s, where six-and-a-half-year-old Peter reads, dreams, and plays with his friends. He is a nascent explorer, artist, philosopher, mystic, and scientist. His world is still new, not yet papered over with received knowledge.
And the actual world around him is a unique one in history: a community of leftist emigres who have found refuge in Mexico from the Nazi and fascist regimes of Europe, rubbing shoulders with Mexican labor activists and leftists such as Frida Kahlo.
But the emigres long for home–including Peter’s stepfather, who wants to return to his native Germany. Going back to Europe may not be safe for any of them yet, however, which gives rise to anguished arguments among Peter’s parents and their tight group of friends.
And slowly, Peter begins to comprehend that his world may be turned upside down–that he might be forced to take leave of everyone he knows: his best friend, Aron; his father’s friend Sandor, who talks about revolution and performs magic tricks; and Zita, the family’s live-in-maid, who has taught him the consoling mysteries of prayer …
Steeped in the magic and myths of childhood–yet haunted by a harsh adult world bedeviled by instability and political turmoil–Joel Agee’s The Stone World is an unforgettable portrait of a family that will inevitably invite comparison with another classic family story, that of his father James Agee’s A Death in the Family.
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The Stone World Audiobook Narrator
Armando Duran is the narrator of The Stone World audiobook that was written by Joel Agee
Armando Duran has appeared in films, television, and regional theaters throughout the West Coast. For the last decade he has been a member of the resident acting company at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In 2009 he was named by AudioFile as Best Voice in Biography and History for his narration of Che Guevara. A native Californian, he divides his time between Los Angeles and Ashland, Oregon.
About the Author(s) of The Stone World
Joel Agee is the author of The Stone World
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The Stone World Full Details
| Narrator | Armando Duran |
| Length | 7 hours 44 minutes |
| Author | Joel Agee |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 27, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9798200997725 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Stone World is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Coming of Age, Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the The Stone World is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9798200997725.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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