Lewis (The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game<\i>, 2006, etc.)
updates and expands his Slate <\i>series on the business of
parenting.After the birth of each of his three children, the author
promptly drew up notes on how he tried manfully to fill the
demanding job of fatherhood. As wife and family CEO Tabitha
provided guidance, the generally inattentive and distracted Lewis
recorded the nuttiness of raising daughters Quinn and Dixie and
their little brother Walker. It's an engaging journal that
selectively details how Dad grew up as well, as caution replaced
airy hope and emotion displaced rationality. The first child was,
for a while, subjected to the vicissitudes of living in Paris and
Gallic notions of childrearing; the French experience seems to have
made her a cool analyst of any situation. Back stateside, a second
girl was born and sibling rivalry erupted. In California, the
couple's third child arrived, and Dad elucidates the effects of
scant sleep, management of Mom's postpartum melancholy and infant
Walker's frightening illness. "If you want to feel the way you're
meant to feel about the new baby," writes Lewis, "you need to do
the grunt work." Only with eternal vigilance can fathers insure the
well-being and personal development of their progeny. Lewis also
follows the trail explored by Dr. Cosby and others investigators of
fatherhood, and he includes a riff on his personal surgery - no
more children are expected in the Lewis household.Brief, clever and
frank - a good gift for Father's Day. (Kirkus Reviews)
A story of raging egos, brutal power struggles and fraught decision
making, from the bestselling author of Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis.
Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood is probably the most
brazenly honest and wickedly funny book about parenting ever
written. Michael Lewis thought he'd seen it all. He'd worked in the
city. He knew how to deal with the worst excesses of human
behaviour. He had cojones. Right? Wrong. He was about to become a
father: 'If you remembered what new parenthood was actually like
you wouldn't go around lying to people about how wonderful it is,
and you certainly wouldn't ever do it twice.' Here Lewis reveals
his own unique take on new-found paternity: from discovering your
three-year-old loves swearing to the ethics of taking your
offspring gambling at the races, from toilet-training to the
inevitable tantrums - of both parent and child - and the gradual
realization that, despite everything, he's becoming hooked: 'I know
for a fact that my children are insane. Or, at any rate, I know
that if an adult behaved as my children do, he would be
institutionalized. Is it possible that they are contagious?' 'Lewis
is the finest storyteller of our generation' Malcolm Gladwell
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