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Be Brief and Tell Them Everything

5 Ratings

3.6

Duration
4H 49min
Language
English
Format
Category

Fiction

A darkly funny meditation on creativity and family, Be Brief and Tell Them Everything tracks the life of a middle-aged author who is struggling to write his next novel while trying to come to grips with his son's disabilities, set against a backdrop of ecological catastrophe and escalating human insanity in contemporary Los Angeles. A beautiful, powerful, concise work of autofiction that is reminiscent of My Struggle and Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Be Brief documents the stops and starts of adulthood and marriage, and the joys and challenges of parenting, while defining what it means to be a good man, and a good writer.

© 2022 HighBridge Audio (Audiobook): 9781696607544

Release date

Audiobook: 10 May 2022

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