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Little Boy: A Novel Audiobook, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Play Audiobook Sample

Little Boy: A Novel Audiobook

Little Boy: A Novel Audiobook, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Peter Coyote Publisher: Random House Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2019 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781984847294

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

77

Longest Chapter Length:

20:36 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

06 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

04:24 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

From the famed publisher and poet, author of the million-copy-selling collection A Coney Island of the Mind, his literary last will and testament -- part autobiography, part summing up, part Beat-inflected torrent of language and feeling, and all magical. "A volcanic explosion of personal memories, political rants, social commentary, environmental jeremiads and cultural analysis all tangled together in one breathless sentence that would make James Joyce proud. . ." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post  In this unapologetically unclassifiable work Lawrence Ferlinghetti lets loose an exhilarating rush of language to craft what might be termed a closing statement about his highly significant and productive 99 years on this planet. The "Little Boy" of the title is Ferlinghetti himself as a child, shuffled from his overburdened mother to his French aunt to foster childhood with a rich Bronxville family. Service in World War Two (including the D-Day landing), graduate work, and a scholar gypsy's vagabond life in Paris followed. These biographical reminiscences are interweaved with Allen Ginsberg-esque high energy bursts of raw emotion, rumination, reflection, reminiscence and prognostication on what we may face as a species on Planet Earth in the future. Little Boy is a magical font of literary lore with allusions galore, a final repository of hard-earned and durable wisdom, a compositional high wire act without a net (or all that much punctuation) and just a gas and an inspiration to read.

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Awards

  • A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice

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About Lawrence Ferlinghetti

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI was born in Bronxville, New York in 1919. Founder of the famed City Lights Books and the author of numerous works of poetry, his A Coney Island of the Mind (New Directions, 1958), is one of the bestselling poetry books of all time. He lives in San Francisco.