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Chargement... Manhood for Amateurs (édition 2010)par Michael Chabon (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreManhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son par Michael Chabon
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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. A memoir of sorts. I haven't read that much non-fiction by Chabon and this was quite enjoyable. He's revealing without being repulsive (largely). ( ) I am pretty stunned at how strongly these essays resonated with me. Some not so much, but most. I guess I should not have been that surprised. I like most of his writing I have sampled and he has an admittedly geek sensibility. I definitely recommend it for anyone who likes his writing, as well as those with sci-fi or comic book or even authorly tendencies. It was a treat hearing him read the audio book to me. Didn't care for it at all! The author spends too much time using very big words to explain his negative attitude about everything. There is virtually nothing about the importance of fathering, or even extended stories about events that helped shape the way he fathers his kids. Don't waste your time on this one. As long as I can remember Dad kept lists of things he feared he would forget. This title was on one of his to-do lists, and I took it up as a Post-It task from beyond. Chabon's premise is that in taking on our parents' example we all feel a bit of a fraud. No doubt Dad did; shedding his role as Junior came with some guilt, as it sprang from his father's death at a young age. But Walter is not here to explain, and really neither is Chabon. Most of his essays on family are like stylish Father's Day blog posts, ending just as they get interesting. But a few get past the nebbishy premise to include us on his journey from boychik to ojciec, a trip I can still take with my father in memory.
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. It’s not a chronicle, but rather a vaguely themed collection of thoughtful first-person essays (most, in this case, originally published in Details magazine) that capture a certain time and mood. The theme: maleness in its various states — boyhood, manhood, fatherhood, brotherhood. The time: now, juxtaposed frequently with Chabon’s 1970s childhood. The mood: wistful. "You have put your finger squarely on the pulse of the American male sensibility ... and you have teased out some basic truths about us and our society, our past and our future." Prix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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