The Resource The hero's body, William Giraldi
The hero's body, William Giraldi
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- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 265 pages
- Isbn
- 9780871406668
- Label
- The hero's body
- Title
- The hero's body
- Statement of responsibility
- William Giraldi
- Title variation
- Hero's body
- Title variation remainder
- a memoir
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Giraldi, William
- Dewey number
-
- 818/.603
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3607.I469
- LC item number
- Z46 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Giraldi, William
- Giraldi family
- Authors, American
- Fathers and sons
- Masculinity
- New Jersey
- Label
- The hero's body, William Giraldi
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn952700764
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 265 pages
- Isbn
- 9780871406668
- Lccn
- 2016019127
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- 20160809
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)952700764
- Label
- The hero's body, William Giraldi
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn952700764
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 265 pages
- Isbn
- 9780871406668
- Lccn
- 2016019127
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- 20160809
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)952700764
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