| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 306 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
I: Secret handshake -- The losers' club -- II: Techniques of betrayal -- William and I -- The cut -- D.A.R.E. -- The memory hole -- The binding of Isaac -- III: Strategies for the folding of time -- To the Legoland Station -- The wilderness of childhood -- Hyprocritical theory -- The splendors of crap -- IV: Exercises in masculine affection -- The hand on my sholder -- The story of our story -- The ghost of Irene Adler -- The heartbreak kid -- A gift -- V: Styles of manhood -- Faking it -- Art of cake -- On Canseco -- I feel good about my murse -- VI: Elements of fire -- Burning women -- Verging -- Fever -- Looking for trouble -- A woman of valor -- VII: Patterns of early enchantment -- Like, cosmic -- Subterranean -- XO9 -- Sky and Telescope -- VIII: Studies in pink and blue -- Surefire lines -- Cosmodemonic -- Boyland -- A textbook father -- IX: Tactics of wonder and loss -- The Omega Glory -- Getting out -- Radio silence -- Normal time -- Xmas -- Thr amateur family -- X: Cut the Mickey Katz -- Daughter of the commandment.. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
One additional copy for Faxon on order |
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One additional copy for Faxon on order |
| Subject |
Chabon, Michael -- Marriage.
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Chabon, Michael -- Family.
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Men -- United States -- Biography.
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Husbands -- United States -- Biography.
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Fathers -- United States -- Biography.
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Sons -- United States -- Biography.
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Marriage -- United States.
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Fatherhood -- United States.
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Masculinity -- United States.
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Authors, American -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780061490187 alkaline paper |
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0061490180 alkaline paper |
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