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E.M. Forster
- A New Life
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
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E.M. Forster
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Publisher's Summary
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
ALA Stonewall Honor Book
Finalist for James Tait Black Memorial Prize
E. M. Forster’s homosexuality was the central fact of his life. Between Wilde’s imprisonment and the Stonewall riots, Forster led a long, strange, and imaginative life as a gay man. He preserved a vast archive of his private life - a history of gay experience he believed would find its audience in a happier time. Seeing Forster’s life through the lens of his sexuality, Wendy Moffat’s biography offers us a dramatic new view - revealing his astuteness as a social critic, his political bravery, and his prophetic vision of gay intimacy. E.M. Forster: A New Life casts fresh light on one of the most beloved writers of the 20th century.
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- Nicholas Doumani
- 19-08-2023
Enlivening and crafted
This biography moved me. Forster comes to life as though he were a fictional character. The detail and pace and colour and tone play out together in appreciative harmony. Forster in this portrait, is both warmly intimate and elusive. The sexual details make it real and corporeal - eager and wary. Forster, the man, is portrayed as true to himself and elegantly flawed. But everything resonates with Forster’s writings. His voice and his delicate nature persist, it seems, in everything he did.
I was awed by the level of detail and academic research if the work.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 10-04-2023
Dissapointingly unlistenable
This audible title could be good, but the narration, initially so much like an an American accented robot, or an AI generated reading with strangely pronounced words, alternatively stretched and then truncated syllables and very weird. As the story progresses, when reading quotes or journal entries and sections of the novels or short stories, the voice morphs into a bad English accent of one accent type, the narrator's version of an upper class English accent or 'received pronunciation'. It is appalling really. I tried my best to make it through, but in the end, I returned the title to Audible. The novel itself was excruciating, and with the terrible narration, unlistenable.
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