The hero's body : a memoir
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780871406668, 0871406667
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
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Published
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780871406668, 0871406667
Notes
Description
"A memoir of motorcycles and muscles, of obsession and grief, and of a young man who learned how to stay alive through literature. At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi's father was killed in a horrific motorcycle crash while racing on a country road. This tragedy, which forever altered the young Giraldi and devastated his family, provides the pulse for The Hero's Body. In the tradition of Andre Dubus III's Townie, this is a deep-seeing investigation into two generations of men from the working-class town of Manville, New Jersey, including Giraldi's own forays into obsessive bodybuilding as a teenager desperate to be worthy of his family's pitiless, exacting codes of manhood. Lauded by The New Yorker for his "unrelenting, perfectly paced prose," Giraldi writes here with daring, searing honesty about the fragility and might of the American male. An unflinching memoir of luminous sorrow, a son's tale of a lost father and the ancient family strictures of extreme masculinity, The Hero's Body is a work of lasting beauty by one of our most fearless writers"--,Provided by publisher.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Chatham Borough-Chatham Township Library - Adult Nonfiction | 796.75 GIR | Available |
East Hanover Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | BIOG GIRALDI | Available |
Jefferson Township Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | BIOG GIRALDI | Available |
Morris County Library - Adult Nonfiction | 796.75 GIR | Available |
Wharton Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | BIOG GIRALDI | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Giraldi, W. (2016). The hero's body: a memoir (First edition.). Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Giraldi, William. 2016. The Hero's Body: A Memoir. Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Giraldi, William. The Hero's Body: A Memoir Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Giraldi, William. The Hero's Body: A Memoir First edition., Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
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