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Widow Basquiat

A Memoir

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Widow Basquiat

By: Jennifer Clement
Narrated by: Noma Dumezweni
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Madonna. Andy Warhol. Keith Haring. Fab 5 Freddie. Debbie Harry. Julian Schnabel. Jean-Michel Basquiat's transition from the subways to the chic gallery spaces of Manhattan brought the artist into the company of many of New York's established and aspiring stars. Unable to deal with the demands that his new fame brought, in 1987, at the age of 27, Basquiat, the most successful black visual artist in history, died from a heroin overdose.

Widow Basquiat is an exploration of the artist as seen through the eyes of his muse, Suzanne. It is a love story like no other. This audio edition is read by Noma Dumezweni, who starred as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

©2010 Jennifer Clement (P)2017 Canongate Books Ltd Art & Literature Artists, Architects & Photographers Memoir New York

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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.

So beautiful

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

fantastic

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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 😳😳😳 😂😂😂 🙃🙃🙃

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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 #👨🏾‍🎨👨🏾‍🎨👨🏾‍🎨 #🎨🎨🎨

a most interesting, moving and beautiful book...

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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.

Incredible, moving story…

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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!

Simply fabulous

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

Insightful

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

wonderful read

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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.

Brutal and beautiful.

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

beautifully sad

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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.

Good book, poor production.

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