Robin Hemley

Do-Over!

In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments

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Produktbeschreibung

Hemley reencounters kindergarten, revisits his childhood home, and finally attends the prom--bringing readers the thrill of recapturing a misspent youth and discovering what's most important: simple pleasures, second chances, and the forgotten joys of recess.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 147mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780316020602
• ISBN-10: 0316020605
• Artikelnr.: 25849596

Autorenporträt

Robin Hemley is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on DO-OVER!. He has published seven books, and his stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and many literary magazines and anthologies. Robin received his MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop; he currently directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City, IA.

Rezensionen

"Robin Hemley may not be able to play Greensleeves on the recorder, but he does know how to write a highly entertaining book." -A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically