The Hero's Body: A Memoir

The Hero's Body: A Memoir

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 Giraldiâ€™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 Heroâ€™s Body. In the tradition of Andre Dubus IIIâ€™s Townie, this is a deep-seeing investigation into two generations of men from the working-class town of Manville, New Jersey, including Giraldiâ€™s own forays into obsessive bodybuilding as a teenager desperate to be worthy of his familyâ€™s pitiless, exacting codes of manhood. Lauded by The New Yorker for his â€œunrelenting, perfectly paced prose,â€ Giraldi writes here with daring, searing honesty about the fragility and might of the American male. An unflinching memoir of luminous sorrow, a sonâ€™s tale of a lost father and the ancient family strictures of extreme masculinity, The Heroâ€™s Body is a work of lasting beauty by one of our most fearless writers. 4 photographs
Country USA
Brand LIVERIGHT
Manufacturer Liveright
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2016-08-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780871406668

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