{"product_id":"manhood-for-amateurs-the-pleasures-and-regrets-of-a-husband-father-and-son-paperback-1","title":"Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Chabon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth's \u003cem\u003eGoodbye, Columbus\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\" \u003cbr\u003e-- Michiko Kakutani, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wondrous, wise and beautiful.\" \u003cbr\u003e-- David Kamp, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eWerewolves in Their Youth, Wonderboys, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Yiddish Policemen's Union\u003c\/em\u003e Michael Chabon \"takes  his] brutally observant, unfailingly honest, marvelously human gaze and turns it on his own life\" (\u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e) in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling memoir \u003cem\u003eManhood for Amateurs\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author-- an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist (Michiko Kakutani, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e)--offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award-winning fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, \u003cem\u003eManhood for Amateurs\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once dazzling, hilarious, and moving, \u003cem\u003eManhood for Amateurs\u003c\/em\u003e is destined to become a classic.\u003c\/p\u003e--Lev Grossman, Time (Top 10 Nonfiction Books Citation)\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author-- \"an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist\" (Michiko Kakutani, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e)--offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award-winning fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, \u003cem\u003eManhood for Amateurs\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once dazzling, hilarious, and moving, \u003cem\u003eManhood for Amateurs\u003c\/em\u003e is destined to become a classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 9.26 x 5.82 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLarge Print:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47519304876285,"sku":"9780061885464","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/nyVTzXk9ph9780061885464.webp?v=1778374878","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/manhood-for-amateurs-the-pleasures-and-regrets-of-a-husband-father-and-son-paperback-1","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}