Michael Chabon

Manhood for Amateurs (eBook, ePUB)

The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Best Book Of The Year

Time • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Kansas City Star San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Seattle Times

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 Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writers addresses with his characteristic warmth and lyric wit the all-important question: What does it mean to be a man today?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062124593
• Artikelnr.: 38006725

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

"Hilarious, moving, pleasurable, disturbing, transcendent, restless. . . . And seemingly by accident, Chabon ultimately does create a composite image of ideal manhood, one that is modest, responsible, bemused, empathic, and thoughtful." Jeremy Adam Smith, San Francisco Chronicle