Kyle Beachy

The Most Fun Thing

Dispatches from a Skateboard Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Perfect for fans of Barbarian Days, this memoir in essays follows one man's decade-long quest to uncover the hidden meaning of skateboarding, and explores how this search led unexpectedly to insights on marriage, love, loss, American invention, and growing old.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown & Company
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 143mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781538754115
• ISBN-10: 1538754118
• Artikelnr.: 60899552

Autorenporträt

Kyle Beachy's first novel, The Slide (Dial Press, 2009), won The Chicago Reader's Best Book by a Chicago Author reader's choice award for the year. His short fiction has appeared in journals including Fanzine, Pank, Hobart, Juked, The Collagist, 5 Chapters, and others.His writing on skateboarding has appeared in The Point, The American Reader, The Chicagoan, Free Skateboard Magazine (UK & Europe), The Skateboard Mag (US), Jenkem, Deadspin, and The Classical. He teaches at Roosevelt University in Chicago and is a co-host on the skateboarding podcast Vent City with pro skater Ryan Lay and others.