The Pulitzer Prize-winning authoran immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiograph ical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award-winning fiction 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: as a series of reflections, regrets and re-examinations, 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 assimply becauseit goes on being written every day. As a devoted son, as a passionate husband, and above all as the father of four young Americans, Chabons 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, are like a theme playedon different instruments, with a fresh tempo and in a new keyby 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.

Extra informatie: Gebonden: harde kaft, 306 pagina's Verschenen: oktober 2009 Gewicht: 408 gram Formaat: 229 x 152 x 32 mm Harpercollins

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