The Set-Up: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Set-Up, credited to Joseph Moncure March, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Set-Up by Joseph Moncure March. Read in English by Ben Tucker. The Set-Up is the classic epic hard-edged poem of an aging African American boxer who is set up to take a fall in the ring against a younger white opponent. But when he finds out the fix is in, he decides he wants to go down swinging. The Set-Up was very loosely adapted into the a film of the same name in 1949 by director Robert Wise but bore little resemblance to the original narrative. Most disappointingly for poet March, the protagonist was changed from black to white, defeating the entire point of the story in March's eyes. Fortunately the original work still packs a punch all these years later. - Summary by Ben Tucker

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Set-Up
• Author credits: Joseph Moncure March
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 1:56:42

Catalogue topics

• epic poem
• boxing
• hard-boiled
• noir

Track guide

1. 01 - One — 4:15
2. 02 - Two — 1:13
3. 03 - Three — 12:48
4. 04 - Four — 38:34
5. 05 - Five — 44:59
6. 06 - Six — 14:53

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