Manhood For Amateurs

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author offers his first major work of nonfiction an autobiographical narrative as inventive beautiful and powerful as his acclaimed award-winning fiction. Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. In these insightful provocative slyly interlinked essays one of our most brilliant and humane writers presents his autobiography and his vision of life in the way so many of us experience our own: as a series of reflections regrets and re-examinations each sparked by an encounter in the present that holds some legacy of the past.What does it mean to be a man today? As a devoted son as a passionate husband and above all as a father Chabon''s memories of childhood of his parents'' marriage and divorce of moments of painful adolescent comedy and giddy encounters with the popular art and literature of his own youth are like a theme played by the mad quartet of which he now finds himself co-conductor.At once dazzling hilarious and moving Manhood for Amateurs is destined to become a classic.