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Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
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Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son Hardcover - 2009

by Michael Chabon

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author--an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist ("The New York Times")--offers his first major work of nonfiction with this autobiographical narrative that is as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his previous works.


From the publisher

"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."
-- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"Wondrous, wise and beautiful."
-- David Kamp, New York Times Book Review

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.

From the rear cover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author-- "an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)--offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award-winning fiction.

A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writers presents his autobiography and his vision of life in the way so many of us experience our own lives: as a series of reflections, regrets, and reexaminations, each sparked by an encounter, in the present, that holds some legacy of the past.

What does it mean to be a man today? Chabon invokes and interprets and struggles to reinvent for us, with characteristic warmth and lyric wit, the personal and family history that haunts him even as--simply because--it goes on being written every day. As a devoted son, as a passionate husband, and above all as the father of four young Americans, Chabon presents his memories of childhood, of his parents' marriage and divorce, of moments of painful adolescent comedy and giddy encounters with the popular art and literature of his own youth, as a theme played--on different instruments, with a fresh tempo and in a new key--by the mad quartet of which he now finds himself co-conductor.

At once dazzling, hilarious, and moving, Manhood for Amateurs is destined to become a classic.

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  • Title Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
  • Author Michael Chabon
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st/1st
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper, New York
  • Date 2009-10
  • Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780061490187 / 0061490180
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.3 in (21.08 x 14.22 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Masculine
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, American, Marriage - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009004749
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2009, Page 4
  • BookPage, 10/01/2009, Page 0
  • Christianity Today, 11/01/2009, Page 70
  • Kirkus Best Books, 12/15/2009, Page 13
  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/2009, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 08/15/2009, Page 97
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 06/15/2009, Page 54
  • New York Times Book Review, 10/25/2009, Page 22
  • People Weekly, 10/19/2009, Page 71
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/20/2009, Page 131
  • Time, 12/21/2009, Page 89
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