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  • I Am Not Raymond Wallace

  • By: Sam Kenyon
  • Narrated by: Alex Wingfield
  • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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I Am Not Raymond Wallace

By: Sam Kenyon
Narrated by: Alex Wingfield
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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.

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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Captivating, beautiful, and powerful storytelling.

I couldn’t put this book down. It was such an enjoyable read. Although it dealt with some hard subjects, I thought that it handled them with thoughtfulness that would leave any reader feeling safe. I particularly enjoyed the love story with history as its backdrop. They flowed together seamlessly in a way that a less skilled writer would go too far with one or the other. It was a great read/listen. I can’t recommend enough. 10/10.

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A journey across generations and a powerful story of an.unfulfilled love of another time and place. The narrator does an excellent job of adding adding depth and personality to each of the characters.

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