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03141aam a22005054i 4500 001 A3AAFA743D4D11E88DF8860497128E48 003 SILO 005 20190328032346 008 171002t20182018nyua 000 0aeng 010 $a 2017047413 020 $a 0525432213 020 $a 9780525432210 020 $a 1524731765 020 $a 9781524731762 035 $a (OCoLC)1019834845 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d GK8 $d LW1 $d ON8 $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3616.A737 $b Z46 2018 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 084 $a LCO010000 $a BIO026000 $a LCO010000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Pardlo, Gregory, $e author. 245 10 $a Air traffic : $b a memoir of ambition and manhood in America / $c Gregory Pardlo. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2018. 300 $a x, 253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, his first work of prose: a deeply felt memoir of a family's bonds and a meditation on race, addiction, fatherhood, ambition, and American culture The Pardlos were an average, middle-class African American family living in a New Jersey Levittown: charismatic Gregory Sr., an air traffic controller, his wife, and their two sons, bookish Greg Jr. and musical-talent Robbie. But when "Big Greg" loses his job after participating in the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Strike of 1981, he becomes a disillusioned, toxic, looming presence in the household--and a powerful rival for young Greg. While Big Greg succumbs to addiction and exhausts the family's money, Greg Jr. rebels--he joins a boot camp for prospective Marines, follows a woman to Denmark, drops out of college again and again, and yields to alcoholism. Years later, he falls for a beautiful, no-nonsense woman named Ginger and becomes a parent himself. Then, he finally grapples with the irresistible yet ruinous legacy of masculinity he inherited from his father. In chronicling his path to recovery and adulthood--Gregory Pardlo gives us a compassionate, loving ode to his father, to fatherhood, and to the frustrating-yet-redemptive ties of family, as well as a scrupulous, searing examination of how African American manhood is shaped by contemporary American life"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Pardlo, Gregory. 600 10 $a Pardlo, Gregory $x Family. 650 0 $a African American authors $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 20th century $x Family relationships. 650 0 $a Fathers and sons $z United States. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 9 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417014051.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012030042.0 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20190717035127.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20190212020210.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006114407.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180605014200.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20180602010714.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20180501011417.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20180411010128.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A3AAFA743D4D11E88DF8860497128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search