{"product_id":"manhood-for-amateurs-the-pleasures-and-regrets-of-a-husband-father-and-son-paperback","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\u003eA Best Book Of The Year \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTime - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Kansas City Star San Francisco Chronicle - NPR - Seattle Times\u003c\/em\u003e\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 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?\u003c\/p\u003e--Jerry Eberle, Booklist\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Best Book Of The Year \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTime - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Kansas City Star San Francisco Chronicle - NPR - Seattle Times\u003c\/em\u003e\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 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.94 x 6.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 11, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52915252166972,"sku":"9780061490194","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/7265\/1324\/files\/QURzZ2ZHNUNYa0FCODF5RGNqTGN3UT09.webp?v=1774361126","url":"https:\/\/barginbooks.co\/products\/manhood-for-amateurs-the-pleasures-and-regrets-of-a-husband-father-and-son-paperback","provider":"Books Fare ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}