I Am Not Raymond Wallace

Written by:
Sam Kenyon
Narrated by:
Alex Wingfield

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
14
Narrator
6
Release Date
September 2022
Duration
7 hours 2 minutes
Summary
Two worlds, two timelines and one person's impact.

Manhattan, 1963: weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy, fresh-faced Raymond Wallace lands in the New York Times newsroom on a three-month bursary from Cambridge University.

He soon discovers his elusive boss, Bukowski, is being covertly blackmailed by an estranged wife, and that he himself is to assist the straight-laced Doty on an article about the ‘explosion of overt homosexuality’. On an undercover assignment, a secret world is revealed to Raymond: a world in which he need no longer pretend to be something or someone he cannot be; a world in which he meets Joey.

Like so many men of his time and of his kind, Raymond faces a choice between conformity, courage and compartmentalization. The decision he makes will ricochet destructively through lives and decades until—in another time, another city; Paris, 2003—Raymond’s son Joe finally meets Joey. And the healing begins.

I Am not Raymond Wallace is a multi-stranded story of queer redemption spanning multiple generations, told with precision-tooled prose, sharply-imagined settings and compassionately-observed characterization.


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Sam Kenyon is a writer, composer and teacher living in London with his partner and daughter. With a background in English Literature from Emmanuel College, he's delved into the performing arts on many occasions. 'I Am Not Raymond Wallace' is Kenyon's debut novel.
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Namarran

A fabulously intelligent and sensitive novel. Humane and heartbreaking and touching. I’m a heterosexual woman and I loved this book. It’s not just a “gay” story, it’s a live story. I loved it, and very well written and very well read.

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Anonymous

I had no idea about the themes of this book. A beautiful story of love over time. Lovely language, content, characterisations.

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H. Michael R.

Tender, clever and generous story about the tangles of love and identity through lives and times.

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Anonymous

Foul language. This was not what I expected!

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