Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son Contributor(s): Chabon, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061885460 ISBN-13: 9780061885464 Publisher: Harper Large Print OUR PRICE: $25.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Jewish |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.82" W x 9.26" (0.86 lbs) 352 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Masculine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus stories with the metaphor-rich descriptions of John Updike and John Irving's inventive sleight of hand. . . . As in his novels, he shifts gears easily between the comic and the melancholy, the whimsical and the serious, demonstrating once again his ability to write about the big subjects of love and memory and regret without falling prey to the Scylla and Charybdis of cynicism and sentimentality." "Wondrous, wise and beautiful." The bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Werewolves in Their Youth, Wonderboys, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon "takes his] brutally observant, unfailingly honest, marvelously human gaze and turns it on his own life" (Time) in the New York Times bestselling memoir Manhood for Amateurs. |
Contributor Bio(s): Chabon, Michael: - Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Moonglow and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, among many others. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children. |