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Manhood for amateurs, the pleasures and regrets of a husband, father, and son, Michael Chabon

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Manhood for amateurs, the pleasures and regrets of a husband, father, and son, Michael Chabon

Language

eng

Main title

Manhood for amateurs

Oclc number

302099820

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Michael Chabon

Sub title

the pleasures and regrets of a husband, father, and son

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

Table Of 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 ; The amateur family -- X. Cue the Mickey Katz. Daughter of the commandment

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