Manhood for amateurs
Subtitle: the pleasures and regrets of a husband, father, and son
By: Michael Chabon
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780061490187
Subjects: Family; Fathers; Men; American Authors; Husbands; Sons; Marriage; Masculinity; Fatherhood; Biography
Description: The author questions what it means to be a man today in a series of interlinked autobiographical reflections, regrets, and reexaminations, each sparked by an encounter, in the present, that holds some legacy of the past.
Table of contents: title: I: Secret handshake; title: The losers' club; title: II: Techniques of betrayal; title: William and I; title: The cut; title: D.A.R.E.; title: The memory hole; title: The binding of Isaac; title: III: Strategies for the folding of time; title: To the Legoland Station; title: The wilderness of childhood; title: Hyprocritical theory; title: The splendors of crap; title: IV: Exercises in masculine affection; title: The hand on my sholder; title: The story of our story; title: The ghost of Irene Adler; title: The heartbreak kid; title: A gift; title: V: Styles of manhood; title: Faking it; title: Art of cake; title: On Canseco; title: I feel good about my murse; title: VI: Elements of fire; title: Burning women; title: Verging; title: Fever; title: Looking for trouble; title: A woman of valor; title: VII: Patterns of early enchantment; title: Like, cosmic; title: Subterranean; title: XO9; title: Sky and Telescope; title: VIII: Studies in pink and blue; title: Surefire lines; title: Cosmodemonic; title: Boyland; title: A textbook father; title: IX: Tactics of wonder and loss; title: The Omega Glory; title: Getting out; title: Radio silence; title: Normal time; title: Xmas; title: Thr amateur family; title: X: Cut the Mickey Katz; title: Daughter of the commandment..