Narrated by January LaVoy, All About Love by bell hooks has a runtime of 6 hrs 10 mins on Audible.
Publisher’s Summary
Read by Audiofile Golden Voice Narrator January LaVoy.
A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks’ “Love Song to the Nation” trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.
“The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society stricken with lovelessness—not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love.
In this landmark book, bell hooks explores the question “What is love?” Her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Disputing that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly love and community can change hearts and minds for the better.
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 6 hrs 10 mins
- Publisher: William Morrow
- Release year: 2023
- Audible category: Health & Wellness / Psychology & Mental Health / Psychology
Listener Ratings
All About Love holds an average listener rating of 4.6/5 from 799 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.7/5
- Story: 4.5/5
- 5-star ratings: 78% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
5/5 stars — “Life-changing book”
I wish I had read this book when I was 20 years old…57 years ago. I had a wonderful marriage of 32 years with a soulmate that ended 3-1/2 years ago. I have been bereft since his loss, however this book gives me hope that I might find love again, and with its knowledge, that live could be deeper and even richer than I have known before.— Vanessa Gardner Nagel, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “One of my favorite books!”
It’s great to have an Audible version of this book finally. Bell Hooks was an amazing author who spoke harsh truths about Black Love. I’m thankful for her words and for her life.— T. Calhoun, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Loved love”
Her piece on enlightened witnesses, put in words the love I have for individuals in my community who stepped in when my mom couldn’t do it by herself. We are not born with knowledge of how to love, it takes someone to SHOW US.— Beth, Audible listener
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