Manhood for Amateurs

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? ''Chabon brings his prodigiously entertaining verbal intelligence to a very personal investigation of what it means to be a father, a son, and a husband.''-Lev Grossman, Time (Top 10 Nonfiction Books Citation)

Product details

• Authors: Michael Chabon
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.05.2010
• EAN: 9780061490194
• ISBN: 978-0-06-149019-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Series: HarperPerennial; P.S.; P.S.
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Parenting / Fatherhood, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Literary Figures, LITERARY CRITICISM: American / General, COMPOSITION & WRITING: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM: Women Authors, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Education, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Jewish