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Chargement... Dan Gets a Minivan: Life at the Intersection of Dude and Dadpar Dan Zevin
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. What a find. I came across this while browsing through some Amazon book ads. The cover grabbed me. Interesting design. Anyway, Mr. Zevin's sense of humor is a cross between Dave Barry's ludicrous-everyday-existence observations and Jim Brewer's my-wife-life-kids-and-family-are-nutballs details. Not every chapter is a winner, as he does try different styles to keep the reader's interest. But the winners? Oh my gosh, they're so-funny-I-doubled-over winners. Gotta read the rest of his books... ( ) This hilarious series of anecdotes echo the feelings of every one of us who suddenly turned into full-time dads. Thankfully, all of us aren't stressed-out Brooklyn yuppies and were able to escape many of Dan Zevin's plights. Nevertheless, his stories still resonate with aspects of our own dude-dad-metamorphosis, which makes them even more painfully funny. Conveniently, the stories are light and short enough to be enjoyed despite the constant interruption of our own progeny...
"Dan Gets a Minivan" is consistently funny, insightful, and even occasionally wise regarding the perks and perils of modern parenting. I wish these essays had more bite. This is well-trodden territory, and the writing could use more snarl. The book has apparently been optioned by Adam Sandler. That seems about right: funny, but, you know, not too funny. "Dan Gets a Minivan" may be a lumbering jokemobile, but the theme stowed inside is serious enough that one actually cares how Mr. Zevin answers the question. Zevin isn’t aiming for literary art here. His style is more Dave Barry than David Foster Wallace. What elevates his work above mere irreverence is the quality of insight he brings to relatively familiar terrain. Prix et récompenses
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HTML: In the bestselling and beloved tradition of Dave Barry, a coming-of-middle-age tale by Thurber finalist Dan Zevin, master of "Seinfeld-ian nothingness" (Time) about a man's inevitable transition into mid-life and fatherhood. The least hip citizen of Brooklyn, Dan Zevin has a working wife, two small children, a mother who visits each week to "help," and an obese Labrador mutt who prefers being driven rather than walked. How he got to this point is a bit of a blur. There was a wedding, and then there was a puppy. A wife was promoted and transferred to New York. A townhouse. A new baby boy. A new baby girl. A stay-at-home dad was born. A prescription for Xanax was filled. Six years passed in six seconds. And then came the minivan. Not just a daddy book, Dan Gets a Minivan is about a guy who happens to be a dad. Acclimating to adulthood has never been his strong suit, and this slice-of-midlife story chronicles the whole hilarious journeyâ??from instituting date night to joining Costco; from touring Disneyland to recovering from knee surgery; from losing ambition to gaining perspective. Where it's all heading is anyone's guess, but, for Dan, suburbia's callingâ??and his minivan has GPS Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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