So beautiful

So beautiful so sad so rich it made me cry. And the reading by Noma Dumezweni is absolutely congenial. I don’t know how not to love this book.

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fantastic

loved this! brutally honest and beautifully read! would definitely recommend and will be listning to this again soon!

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a most interesting, moving and beautiful book...

i have #justRead (== 'met' == 'spent time with') a most ([unexpectedly] #interesting #moving 🤔🤔🤔 and) #beautiful #book #📚📚📚

#widowBasquiat #aMemoir written by #jenniferClement about #suzanneMallouk's 'life'time spent with #jeanMichelBasquiat #basquiat @basquiatArt

#sublime(ly [sometimes heartbreakingly 💔💔💔) #readBy @missDumezweni #nomaDumezweni 🙌🙌🙌

published by my favourite publishing house @canongateBooks #canongateBooks who's mail on occasion i collect 📮📮📮 😋😋😋 so if You're wondering 🤔🤔🤔 YES I DO consider myself 'a part' of the #creativeMachine ❗️❗️ AND PROUD OF IT 😳😳😳 😂😂😂 🙃🙃🙃

#print (read) | @audible_com @audible_uk #audible #audioBook (listen) | #kindle ([highlight &] notate) ~ simultaneous listen and read 🤓🤓🤓 | (for) deep(er) learning | total emersion 🤣🤣🤣 🙃🙃🙃🙃

i am dumbfounded and awed by those (rare few) who poses such creative powers

those in the book, those who wrote the book and those who published the book 🙌🙌🙌 thank You for Your (collective) #contributionToTheCollectiveConsciousness 🙌🙌🙌 🙌🙌🙌 🙌🙌🙌 #samo #samoBasquiat #art #artist #👨🏾‍🎨👨🏾‍🎨👨🏾‍🎨 #🎨🎨🎨

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Incredible, moving story…

Such a sad story & one that needs to be listened to. Basquiat’s rise & then fall from grace due to drug abuse & his rising fame is worth listening to as is his relationship with Suzanne, told brilliantly in this audiobook.

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Simply fabulous

I had this book in my wish list for a few months before I decided to purchase. I should have bought it sooner! The story is told so beautifully, it’s the most engrossed I have been in an audio book yet!

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Insightful

A window into the life and world of JMB. Poetry from start to finish. A dark life affirming story.

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wonderful read

one of the most beautifully book I've ever read. a story of real love.

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Brutal and beautiful.

Absolute poetry, this book. Incredible and incredibly difficult life stories narrated with such beauty and power. Noma Dumezweni’s narration is splendid. A real shame that the rhythm of her voice and of the text is spoilt by really poor sound editing at the end/beginning of chapters.

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beautifully sad

beautifully sad what an amazingly talented spirit brought to thia world for a short time only.

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Good book, poor production.

This is a great read for anyone interested in Jean Michel Basquiat or the NYC art world of the eighties, but it’s let down slightly by the awkward production of the audio book here.
Every time there’s a new chapter (which is often) there’s no pause between the last word spoken in one chapter and the title of the new chapter. So it sounds like a continuation of the same sentence and doesn’t make sense. This happens every few minutes as there’s so many chapters.
Also some chapters are repeated, and the reader mispronounces the word SAMO throughout the entire book, which jars if you know the correct pronunciation.
If you can suffer these moments then you’ll enjoy a fascinating window into the life of someone very close to a compelling artist.

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