Audiobooks by Garrard Conley

All the World Beside

"Cana, Massachusetts, 1730. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World into their fold. One such Christian, physician Arthur Lyman, discovers in the minister's words a love so captivating it transcends language. As the bond between these two men grows more and more passionate, their families must contend with a tangled web of secrets, lies and judgments which threaten to destroy them in this world and the next. As Nathaniel and Arthur search for a path out of an impossible situation, their wives and children must do the same, looking beyond the known world for a new kind of wilderness, both physical and spiritual. Set during the turbulent historical upheavals which shaped America's destiny, All the World Beside reveals the very human lives just beneath the surface of dogmatic belief. Bestselling author Garrard Conley has created a page-turning, vividly imagined historical tale that is both a love story and a crucible."

Garrard Conley (Author), Garrard Conley, Pete Cross (Narrator)

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[Italian] - Boy Erased. Vite cancellate

"A diciannove anni Garrard, figlio di un pastore battista e devoto membro della vita religiosa di una piccola città dell'Arkansas, è costretto a confessare ai genitori la propria omosessualità. La loro reazione lo mette di fronte a una scelta che gli cambierà la vita: perdere la famiglia, gli amici e il dio che ama sin dalla nascita oppure sottoporsi a una terapia di riorientamento sessuale, o terapia riparativa, per 'curarsi' dall'omosessualità, un programma in dodici passi da cui dovrebbe riemergere eterosessuale, ex-gay, purificato dagli empi istinti che lo animano e ritemprato nella fede in Dio attraverso lo scampato pericolo del peccato. Quello di Garrard è un viaggio lungo e doloroso grazie al quale, tuttavia, trova la forza e la consapevolezza necessarie per affermare la sua vera natura e conquistarsi il perdono di cui ha bisogno. Affrontando a viso aperto il suo passato sepolto e il peso di una vita vissuta nell'ombra, in questo memoir l'autore esamina il complesso rapporto che lega famiglia, religione e comunità. Straziante e insieme liberatorio, Boy Erased è un'ode all'amore che sopravvive nonostante tutto. Questo libro ha ispirato l'omonimo film prodotto da Focus Features, diretto da Joel Edgerton, con protagonisti Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe e Lucas Hedges."

Garrard Conley (Author), Dario Sansalone (Narrator)

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Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith and Family

"NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING LUCAS HEDGES, RUSSELL CROWE AND NICOLE KIDMAN, AND WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JOEL EDGERTON ‘A necessary, beautiful book’ Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You ‘A brilliant memoir’ Guardian The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to “cure” him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life. Through an institutionalised Twelve-Step Program heavy on Bible study, he was supposed to emerge heterosexual, ex-gay, cleansed of impure urges and stronger in his faith in God for his brush with sin. Instead, even when faced with a harrowing and brutal journey, Garrard found the strength and understanding to break out in search of his true self and forgiveness. By confronting his buried past and the burden of a life lived in shadow, Garrard traces the complex relationships among family, faith, and community. At times heartbreaking, at times triumphant, this memoir is a testament to love that survives despite all odds."

Garrard Conley (Author), Christopher Ragland (Narrator)

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