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The Late Bloomer: A Memoir of My Body Audiobook, by Ken Baker Play Audiobook Sample

The Late Bloomer: A Memoir of My Body Audiobook

The Late Bloomer: A Memoir of My Body Audiobook, by Ken Baker Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Ken Baker Publisher: Penguin Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2016 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781524734114

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

103

Longest Chapter Length:

08:59 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

11 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

05:35 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

Soon to be a feature film, The Late Bloomer is the revealing, harrowing and often funny memoir of a celebrity journalist and former hotshot hockey player who discovers that he has been biochemically infused with a female hormone. On the surface, Ken Baker seemed a model man. He was a nationally ranked hockey goalie; a Hollywood correspondent for People; a guest-lister at celebrity parties; and girls came on to him. Inside, though, he didn't feel like the man he was supposed to be. Although attracted to women, Ken had little sex drive and thus even less of a sex life. To his anguish, he repeatedly found himself unable to perform sexually. And, regardless of strenuous workouts, his body struggled to build muscle, earning him the nickname "Pear" from his macho teammates. Physically, matters turned bizarre when he discovered that he was lactating. The testosterone-driven culture in which Ken grew up made it agonizingly difficult for him to seek help. But in time he discovered something that lifted years of pain, frustration, and confusion: a brain tumor was causing his body to be flooded with massive amounts of a female hormone, which was disabling his masculinity. Five hours of surgery accomplished what years of therapy, rumination, and denial could not -- and allowed Ken Baker to finally feel -- and function -- like a man. Now Ken's story comes to the screen in the feature film, The Late Bloomer, starring Academy Award-winner J.K. Simmons and Jane Lynch.

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