Any Known Blood

Name: Any Known Blood
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Lawrence Hill
ISBN: 9781449836955

Author: Lawrence Hill

Narrator: Kevin R. Free

Unabridged: 15 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/17/2010

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Author of the #1 best-seller The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill is a writer of immense talent-and his literary reputation grows with each new work. Canadian Langston Cane V finds his writing career (and, indeed, his life) in stasis until inspired by his mentor to write about an ancestor who purportedly died fighting alongside John Brown at Harpers Ferry. Traveling to Baltimore, the latter-day Cane delves into history and in so doing awakens to new possibilities. "A remarkable achievement."-Joyce Carol Oates

About Lawrence Hill

LAWRENCE HILL is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of The Book of Negroes, which was made into a six-part TV mini-series, and The Illegal, which won CBC’s Canada Reads and was a #1 national bestseller. His previous novels Some Great Thing and Any Known Blood also became national bestsellers. Hill’s non-fiction work includes Blood: The Stuff of Life, the subject of his 2013 Massey Lectures, and Black Berry, Sweet Juice, a memoir about growing up black and white in Canada. Lawrence Hill has volunteered with Crossroads International, the Black Loyalist Heritage Society, Book Clubs for Inmates and the Ontario Black History Society. A professor of creative writing at the University of Guelph, Lawrence Hill lives with his family in Hamilton, Ontario, and Woody Point, Newfoundland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cori on February 10, 2020

This book came out of left field and blew me away. Simply fantastic storytelling.......more

Goodreads review by JackieBeau on April 03, 2023

Hi there my fellow bookworms ! This was my first Lawrence book that I read and it won’t be my last ! I Loved this book ! Langston Crane the fifth is a speech writer for a politician but loses his job because he leaked something he was not supposed to . His parents are Inter racial . He is divorced b......more

Goodreads review by Read In Colour on December 08, 2014

Loved the story lines, loved the characters and loved the narration. At 15 1/2 hours, I thought it would take me at least a week or two to get through this, but it was so good that I listened at home, at work and on my commute.......more

Goodreads review by Marcia on August 05, 2016

After reading The Book of Negroes and more recently The Illegal, I decided to give Lawrence Hill's older novel Any Known Blood a try. Truly, Hill does not disappoint. I found Book of Negroes engrossing and just the right amount of uncomfortable to read. The Illegal was a completely different pace (a......more