Bono Audiobooks

Surrender: twenty hours of memoir, performed by its own author

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Who is Bono?

Memoir at this length is a commitment on both sides of the microphone. Surrender runs past twenty hours and is performed by its own author, which puts the whole thing in the first person twice over: the sentences and the delivery come from the same place.

We hold this page to what the catalogue supports, so we will describe the recording and leave the life story to the recording itself. It is shelved with biographies and memoirs and with arts and entertainment, a pairing that usually signals a working life spent making things in public.

Bono in audiobooks

Twenty hours and twenty-five minutes is closer to a season than to a weekend, and self-narrated memoir at that scale asks for patience and repays attention. The pauses and the emphases are the author’s own, which is the argument for choosing the audio over the page.

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