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Item Details
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HOW TO BE A MAN
SCENES FROM A PROTRACTED BOYHOOD |
| By: |
Thomas Beller |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£18.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0393326837 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780393326833 |
| Publisher: |
WW NORTON & CO |
| Pub. date: |
6 September, 2005 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
From strip clubs to the Academy Awards to the basketball court, this title is a ride through the landscape of guyhood. Through stints as a bike messenger, a drummer, a boyfriend and--possibly, potentially, finally--a husband, Beller writes about the life-changing effects of love and marriage, 256 pp. |
| Synopsis: |
Acclaimed fiction writer Thomas Beller digs deep into his own history in this humorous and insightful collection about the state of masculinity. With sharp and engaging eloquence he discourses on T-shirts; being your mother's date at the Academy Awards; life at a bagel factory; the irrational pleasures of old American cars and the mysterious disappearance of the author's own particular vehicle from a street in downtown Manhattan; love, sex, and breakups in an office environment; the social ecology of street basketball including the sudden peril befalling a particular court in Manhattan and the heartwarming efforts of previously disparate community members to save it; coaches; the death of a parent; getting over J. D. Salinger; and an attempt to build a complicated piece of furniture for a beloved. Through stints as a bike messenger, a drummer, a boyfriend and possibly, potentially, finally a husband, Beller writes about the life-changing effects of love and marriage past, present, and future." |
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US |
| Imprint: |
WW Norton & Co |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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