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A VIEW OF THE EMPIRE AT SUNSETby Caryl Phillips | Read by Justine EyreBlackstone Audio | UnabridgedFictionNarrator Justine Eyre sounds simultaneously enticing and embittered in Phillips's interesting novelization of the life of author Jean Rhys. That's just as it should be, as Rhys was famously troubled and talented. Born in Dominica, Rhys's most famous novel, WIDE SARGASSO SEA, imagines an island childhood for the mad wife in Charlotte Brontë's JANE EYRE. Phillips's novel... Read More |
FOREIGNERSby Caryl Phillips | Read by Robert Ian Mackenzie, Peter Jay Fernandez, Dion Graham, et al.Recorded Books/ Griot Audio | UnabridgedFictionCaryl Phillips has compiled three biographies of black men struggling to make their way in a white world in England. The accounts date from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. The first and third sections—about a Jamaican boy “given” to Samuel Johnson and a stowaway from Nigeria who ends up in England—make for the best listening. They are narrated by a single performer... Read More |
DANCING IN THE DARKEarphones Award Winner
by Caryl Phillips | Read by Dion GrahamRecorded Books | UnabridgedFictionBert Williams, a West Indian immigrant, was a dancer, singer, and comic at the turn of the twentieth century. After a shaky and dangerous start in logging camps and backwaters across America, Williams and his partner, George Walker, moved on to play vaudeville, Broadway, and Buckingham Palace. Dion Graham narrates this story of a gifted actor forced by racism to be a clown.... Read More 00:00 00:00 00:00 |
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