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The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer— "an greatly gifted writer and a magical prose stylist" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)—offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award-winning fiction.

A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the real story of your fabulist, an entire life in parts and portions, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our own most excellent and humane authors reveals his autobiography and his eye-sight of life in the way so most of us experience our own lives: as a series of reflections, regrets, and reexaminations, each sparked by an face, in today's, that supports some legacy of days gone by. What does it mean to be a man today? Chabon invokes and interprets and challenges to reinvent for us, with characteristic friendliness and lyric wit, the non-public and family history that haunts him even as—simply because—it continues on being written every day. Like a devoted kid, as a passionate husband, and most importantly as the daddy of four young Us citizens, Chabon reveals his memory of childhood, of his parents' relationship and divorce, of occasions of agonizing adolescent comedy and giddy encounters with the popular art and books of his own youngsters, as a style performed—on different tools, with a brand new tempo and in a new key—by the mad quartet which he now sees himself co-conductor. At once dazzling, entertaining, and moving, Manhood for Amateurs is destined to become classic.