The Book of Delights - Ross Gay Audiobook

Written by Ross Gay
Read by Ross Gay
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Release date: February 12, 2019
Duration: 05:02:29

The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyric essays, written daily over a tumultuous year reminding us of the purpose, and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating ordinary wonders. Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays- some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages-that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed view of the complexities, even the terrors, in his life, including living in America as a black man; the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture; the loss of those he loves.

“–Both his writing and narration are humorous, fluid, playful, and, at times, quite serious. And, since this is his story, the audiobook is especially powerful as delivered in his own voice. Listening is like hanging out with a silly, intuitive friend who spends his time observing the world and figuring out how humans interact with one another. Gay ruminates and ponders aloud endlessly. Even when speaking of suffering, he offers a perspective that is magically delightful.”— AudioFile