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The Leeward Side

Whitney Lyon Balliett

Narrator Gary Telles

Publisher: Listen & Live Audio

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Summary

Whitney Balliett's magnificent essay on the Great Hurricane of 1938 appeared in The New Yorker fifty years after the event. This selection is part of the full length audiobook, "Storm: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea." 
 
Whitney Lyon Balliett (17 April 1926 – 1 February 2007), born in New York City, was America's greatest jazz critic and a master of language. He was a book reviewer and essayist for The New Yorker from 1954 until 2001. 
 
Gary Telles has been narrating audiobooks for the past ten years. A veteran stage actor, he has performed classical, contemporary and original theatre across the country, in addition to appearing on television, radio and CD-ROM.
Duration: 11 minutes (00:11:08)
Publishing date: 2023-02-02; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2023. Copyright Statment: —