Jubilee, 50th Anniversary Edition, Margaret Walker
Jubilee, 50th Anniversary Edition, Margaret Walker
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Jubilee, 50th Anniversary Edition

Author: Margaret Walker, Nikki Giovanni

Narrator: Robin Miles

Unabridged: 15 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/06/2016

Synopsis

The fiftieth-anniversary edition of Margaret Walker’s bestselling classic with a foreword by Nikki GiovanniJubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the South’s antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction.Weaving her own family’s oral history with thirty years of research, Margaret Walker’s novel brings the everyday experiences of slaves to light. Jubilee churns with the hunger, the hymns, the struggles, and the very breath of American history.

About Margaret Walker

Margaret Walker (1915–1998) was one of America’s most popular and respected African American writers and scholars. Among the most formidable literary voices to emerge in the twentieth century, she will be remembered as one of the foremost transcribers of African American heritage.

About Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Giovanni (1943–2024) was an American poet, writer, activist, commentator, and educator. She was the recipient of more than sixty personal awards, and her works also earned awards. She published her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968, after which she became one of America’s most widely read poets, writing many books of poetry for children and adults. She called herself, “a Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English.” She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied at Fisk University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University.

About Robin Miles

Robin Miles, named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, has twice won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, an Audie Award for directing, and many Earphones Awards. Her film and television acting credits include The Last Days of Disco, Primary Colors, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order, New York Undercover, National Geographic’s Tales from the Wild, All My Children, and One Life to Live. She regularly gives seminars to members of SAG and AFTRA actors’ unions, and in 2005 she started Narration Arts Workshop in New York City, offering audiobook recording classes and coaching. She holds a BA degree in theater studies from Yale University, an MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama, and a certificate from the British American Drama Academy in England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Merna on October 29, 2023

By now, I've read plenty of books set in antebellum south, and although this novel does not score as high as kindred or incidents in the life of a slave girl, it's still fairly good. It's the only one that I've read which captures the antebellum era, civil war, and the reconstruction period. My favo......more

Goodreads review by Moonkiszt on August 12, 2019

Jubilee Throughout my life when someone asks me what my favorite book is, my response is usually Gone With The Wind (have read and watched it over 20 times in my life). My mother’s line is Southern / Northern, and it goes like that all the way back to the Mayflower, to Miss Priscilla Mullins. It was......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on January 01, 2019

4.5 stars for a really enjoyable audiobook! Jubilee was one of those books I hadn't heard about until I saw it as an Audible Daily Deal. I looked into the history of the book and its author and I found out some interesting things. Ms. Walker released this story in the 1960s and it was well received.......more

Quotes

“Chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondage.” New York Times Book Review

“Do yourself a favor by picking up Jubilee.” Chicago Tribune

“A revelation.” Milwaukee Journal

“Robin Miles is the masterful narrator of this groundbreaking American novel. Hearing her musical voice, listeners will be inspired to root for the ‘yellow girl’ Vyry…She endows the wide cast of characters with distinctive pitches, tones, and dialects. Enslaved and free, poor and rich, old and young, black and white, these characters come to life as Miles effortlessly enacts the details of everyday life and everyday brutality. Haunting, vivid, and beautiful, this jubilant audiobook does justice to the masterwork and its exquisitely told story.” AudioFile

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