When I first held you
Subtitle: 22 critically acclaimed writers talk about the triumphs, challenges, and transformative experience of fatherhood
By: edited by Brian Gresko
Edition: Berkley trade paperback ed.
Publisher: Berkley
Published: May 2014
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780425269244
Subjects: Fathers; Fatherhood
Description: Becoming a father can be one of the most profoundly terrifying, exhilarating, life-changing occasions in a man's life. Now 22 of today's masterful writers get straight to the heart of modern fatherhood in this incomparable collection of thought-provoking essays. From making that ultimate decision to have a kid to making it through the birth to tangling with a toddler mid-tantrum, and eventually letting a teen loose in the world, these fathers explore every facet of fatherhood and show how being a father changed the way they saw the world--and themselves.
Table of contents: label: Darin Strauss
title: Foreword
pagenum: xiii; label: Brian Gresko
title: Introduction
pagenum: xvii; label: Dennis Lehane
title: On Love and Incompetence
pagenum: 1; label: Lev Grossman
title: Daughter Pressure
pagenum: 15; label: David Bezmozgis
title: First Child
pagenum: 23; label: Alexi Zentner
title: Hurtings
pagenum: 29; label: Anthony Doerr
title: Nine Times ...
pagenum: 41; label: Ben Greenman
title: You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory
pagenum: 57; label: André Aciman
title: Empty Rooms
pagenum: 67; label: Justin Cronin
title: My Daughter and God
pagenum: 73; label: Stephen O’Connor
title: As Long as He Knows You Love Him
pagenum: 95; label: Chris Bachelder
title: Father’s Prayer
pagenum: 107; label: Karl Taro Greenfeld
title: Taking Her Measure
pagenum: 117; label: Peter Ho Davies
title: Dinosaur
pagenum: 127; label: Bruce Machart
title: A World in Which We Refuse to Play
pagenum: 135; label: Matthew Specktor
title: Our Birds
pagenum: 149; label: Benjamin Percy
title: Your Own Worst Enemy
pagenum: 157; label: Frederick Reiken
title: Arcadia
pagenum: 169; label: Rick Moody
title: On Fatherhood and Separation
pagenum: 181; label: Steve Edwards
title: To Tell a Happy Story
pagenum: 193; label: Marco Roth
title: Paternal Authority Takes a Backseat
pagenum: 205; label: Bob Smith
title: Zombie Father
pagenum: 215; label: Garth Stein
title: Man, Dying
pagenum: 227; label: Andre Dubus III
title: The Door
pagenum: 245; title: About the Contributors
pagenum: 265; title: Copyrights and Permissions
pagenum: 273; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 275