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His Eye Is on the Sparrow
- Author
- Ethel Waters
- Narrator
- Grover Gardner, Robin Miles
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 13 August 2022
- Run Time
- 12 hours 44 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Ethel Waters’s His Eye Is on the Sparrow stands as perhaps the greatest autobiography of a Black female performer, capturing both the horror and the joy of the African American woman’s experience through the often bitter yet always forgiving voice of an indomitable spirit. This edition is supplemented with a new historical preface.
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“Robin Miles delivers a virtuoso performance…Her dramatic skills…[and] vocal beauty and sophistication are a big reason this audio will impact listeners in this way…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“I listened enthralled.”
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“One of the two or three best as-told-to show business memoirs ever, a masterpiece of candor and righteous observation.”
Gary Giddins, music critic and author
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“With astonishing candor, Ethel Waters tells her dramatic and dazzling story…Hers is both an engrossing record of a topsy-turvy career and, just as importantly, an invaluable social document that traces the changing landscape for African American entertainers in the first half of the twentieth century.”
Donald Bogle, author of Hollywood Black
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Details
- Author
- Ethel Waters
- Narrator
- Grover Gardner, Robin Miles
- Duration
- 12 hours 44 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 August 2022
- ISBN
- 9798200810130
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Biography: arts and entertainment, Composers and songwriters, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Films, cinema, Popular music, Biography: general, Ethnic studies, Biography: general, Gender studies: women and girls
Synopsis
Ethel Waters’s His Eye Is on the Sparrow stands as perhaps the greatest autobiography of a Black female performer, capturing both the horror and the joy of the African American woman’s experience through the often bitter yet always forgiving voice of an indomitable spirit. This edition is supplemented with a new historical preface.
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