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Title The hero's body / William Giraldi.
Publisher New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Description 265 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 25 cm
Edition First Edition.


LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 AM-1st Floor Stacks  B GIRALDI GIR Nearby on shelf  35922003527441 (none)  AVAILABLE
 BB-Lower Level Stacks  B GIRALDI Nearby on shelf  061291003624803 (none)  AVAILABLE
 CW-Adult Upper Level Non-Fiction  B GIRALDI  30620005168363 11-03-16  AVAILABLE
 DP-Non-Fiction  305.31 Giraldi Nearby on shelf  32244202432205 (none)  AVAILABLE
 EI-Adult Collection  818.603 GIR Nearby on shelf  30626003044043 01-20-17  AVAILABLE
 NS-Adult Collection  818.6 GIR Nearby on shelf  30651003338252 (none)  AVAILABLE
 PM-Adult Collection  B GIRALDI  30643005601050 (none)  AVAILABLE
 RV-Lower Stacks  B GIRALDI  30646003652116 (none)  AVAILABLE
 WB-Adult Collection  B GIRALDI  3 0672 00293 7779 12-11-23  AVAILABLE
Note "A memoir"--Cover.
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" -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Giraldi, William -- Family.
Giraldi family.
Authors, American -- Biography.
Fathers and sons -- Biography.
Masculinity -- United States.
New Jersey -- Biography.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9780871406668
0871406667