Fiction
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
A Harper paperback of Michael Chabon's 2009 essays on fatherhood, husbandhood, and the various ways a man can fail at both while remaining employed. Chabon writes about comic books, grocery shopping, divorce, and the Olympics with the same sentence-level ambition he brings to fiction, which is either generous or showy depending on your tolerance. The Harper cover is the standard trade paperback design, with the author photograph and the careful typography that signal a writer who has won prizes and is now allowed to reflect.Ideal reader: the father who has caught himself explaining his own childhood to his children, or the reader who wants essays that admit confusion without pleading for sympathy.
$5.00
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Pittsburgh, PA
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3–5 business days
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