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Writing to Save a Life audiobook
- By: John Edgar Wideman
- Narrator: Roger Guenveur Smith
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Cultural Heritage
- Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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Writing to Save a Life Audiobook Summary
A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and deja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and expose” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family–civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis–shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Emmett Till took a train from his home in Chicago to visit family in Money, Mississippi; a few weeks later he returned home dead. Murdered because he was a colored boy and had, allegedly, whistled at a white woman. His mother, Mamie Till, chose to display her son’s brutalized face in a glass-topped casket, “so the world can see what they did to my baby.”
Emmett Till’s murder and his mother’s refusal to allow his story to be forgotten have become American legends. But one darkly significant twist in the Till legend is rarely mentioned: Louis Till, Emmett’s father, Mamie’s husband, a soldier during World War II, was executed in Italy for committing rape and murder.
In 1955, when he and Emmett were each only fourteen years old, Wideman saw a horrific photograph of dead Emmett’s battered face. Decades later, upon discovering that Louis Till had been court-martialed and hanged, he was impelled to investigate the tragically intertwined fates of father and son. Writing to Save a Life is “part exploration and part meditation, a searching account of [Wideman’s] attempt to learn more about the short life of Louis Till” (The New York Times Book Review) and shine light on the truths that have remained in darkness.
Wideman, the author of the award-winning Brothers and Keepers, “is a master of quiet meditation…and his book is remarkable for its insight and power” (SFGate). An amalgam of research, memoir, and imagination, Writing to Save a Life is essential and “impressive” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) reading–an engaging, enlightening conversation between generations, the living and the dead, fathers and sons.
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Writing to Save a Life Full Details
| Narrator | Roger Guenveur Smith |
| Length | 7 hours 29 minutes |
| Author | John Edgar Wideman |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| Release date | April 23, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781508230564 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Writing to Save a Life is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Cultural Heritage
Additional info
The publisher of the Writing to Save a Life is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781508230564.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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