Manhood for Amateurs
The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
(Sprache: Englisch)
Now in paperback with a P.S. section featuring a new-to-the-book essay. "Chabon takes the same brutally observant, unfailingly honest, marvelously human gaze that won him a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and turns it on his own life as a committed husband and...
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Now in paperback with a P.S. section featuring a new-to-the-book essay. "Chabon takes the same brutally observant, unfailingly honest, marvelously human gaze that won him a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and turns it on his own life as a committed husband and father, Lego enthusiast and unrepentant nerd-in short, as a man." - Time
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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 painfuladolescent 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.
Autoren-Porträt von Michael Chabon
Michael Chabons Großvater war Setzer und arbeitete in einer New Yorker Firma, in der unter anderem Comic-Hefte gedruckt wurden. Chabon wurde 1963 in Washington DC geboren und wuchs in Columbia, Maryland auf. Seine Arbeiten erschienen im New Yorker, Harper's, GQ, Esquire und Playboy und zahlreichen Anthologien. Für seinen Roman "Die unglaublichen Abenteuer von Kavalier & Clay" erhielt Chabon den Pulitzer Prize. Er lebt heute mit seiner Frau und seinen Kindern in Berkeley.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michael Chabon
- 2010, 336 Seiten, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: HarperPerennial
- ISBN-10: 0061490199
- ISBN-13: 9780061490194
Sprache:
Englisch
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