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02307aam a22003734i 4500 001 5368A328644011E6892B4FCDDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20200118010508 008 160629s2016 nyua r 000 0aeng d 010 $a 2016019127 020 $a 0871406667 (hardcover) 020 $a 9780871406668 (hardcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SKYRV $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-nj $a n-us-nj 050 00 $a PS3607.I469 $b Z46 2016 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Giraldi, William, $e author. 245 14 $a The hero's body / $c William Giraldi. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Liveright Publishing Corporation, $c 2016. 300 $a 265 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "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" -- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Giraldi, William $x Family. 600 30 $a Giraldi family. 650 0 $a Authors, American $v Biography. 650 0 $a Fathers and sons $v Biography. 650 0 $a Masculinity $z United States. 651 0 $a New Jersey $v Biography. 941 $a 3 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722054817.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213011636.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20160817011944.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5368A328644011E6892B4FCDDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search