A history of my brief body

Daisy Sound Recording 2021

Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. From there, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him, in all its complexity and contradictions: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it, first loves and first loves lost, sexual exploration and intimacy, and the act of wri...

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ISBN:

9781039554221
1039554229

Edition:

Daisy edition

Description:

1 DAISY disc (3 hr., 42 min.) : sound ; 12 cm
digital DAISY
audio file

Other Title:

Essays. Selections

Notes:

Canadiana
Access restricted to persons who are visually impaired or physically disabled and cannot use conventional print materials
Read by the author
Audio and text
DAISY reproduction. [New York] : Hamish Hamilton, 2020
Reproduced from: [New York] : Hamish Hamilton, 2020. 9780735240292
DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps
System requirements: IBM PC or compatible; double speed or faster CD-ROM drive; sound card and sound output device; DAISY playback software or DAISY talking book player. Also plays in CD-MP3 player or computer with MP3-capable software
Studio original

Contents:

An NDN Boyhood
A History of My Brief Body
Futuromania
Gay: 8 Scenes
Loneliness in the Age of Grindr
Fragments from a Half-Existence
An Alphabet of Longing
Robert
Notes from an Archive of Injuries
Please Keep Loving: Reflections on Unlivability
Fatal Naming Rituals
To Hang Our Grief Up to Dry

Control Number:

3315225

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Centre for Equitable Library Access (Canada)

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