Manhood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon
Manhood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon
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Manhood for Amateurs

Author: Michael Chabon

Narrator: Michael Chabon

Unabridged: 8 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/06/2009


Synopsis

“Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus stories with the metaphor-rich descriptions of John Updike and John Irving’s inventive sleight of hand. . . . As in his novels, he shifts gears easily between the comic and the melancholy, the whimsical and the serious, demonstrating once again his ability to write about the big subjects of love and memory and regret without falling prey to the Scylla and Charybdis of cynicism and sentimentality.”
— Michiko Kakutani, New York Times “Wondrous, wise and beautiful.”
— David Kamp, New York Times Book Review The bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Werewolves in Their Youth, Wonderboys, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union Michael Chabon “takes [his] brutally observant, unfailingly honest, marvelously human gaze and turns it on his own life” (Time) in the New York Times bestselling memoir Manhood for Amateurs.

About Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Moonglow and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, among many others. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Violet

One thing I realised while reading these autobiographical essays was I would prefer to be Michael Chabon's daughter than his wife. This because he comes across as one of those boy men who has never quite transcended the communion he knew with childhood toys and games. In other words, he's a geek. Th......more

Goodreads review by Kemper

I've lost some respect for Chabon for dedicating an entire essay to why he started carrying a man-purse, or murse as he calls it. However, I still really enjoyed this book of his musings on how he became the 'man' he is today and how it influences his behavior as a father, husband, son and brother. T......more