How to Be a Man
Autor: | Beller, Thomas |
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EAN: | 9780393326833 |
Sachgruppe: | Belletristik |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 246 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 01.08.2005 |
Untertitel: | Scenes from a Protracted Boyhood |
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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.