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The Hero's Body (Paperback)
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The Hero's Body (Paperback)
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List price R300
Loot Price R240
Discovery Miles 2 400
You Save R60 (20%)
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The Hero's Body is a memoir of what it means to be a man in modern
America. At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi's father
was killed in a horrific motorcycle accident. Writing here with
searing honesty about grief, obsession, shame and identity, he
looks back on three generations of men from the blue-collar town of
Manville, New Jersey, and tells their stories in tandem: the
speed-crazed cult of his father's 'superbikes', each Sunday spent
racing fate along the winding back roads of Pennsylvania; the
trauma of a son's ultimate loss, and William's attempts to rebuild
a self in the manliest costume he knew. For a teen consumed by
hardcore bodybuilding, pumping iron was so much more than a
sport-it was a hallowed lifeline for a bookish tenth-grader, a way
to forge himself a spot amongst his family's imperious patriarchs.
A work of lasting literary beauty, lauded by the New Yorker for its
'unrelenting, perfectly paced prose', The Hero's Body is a tale of
the working-class male, the codes of machismo and the unspoken bond
between father and son.
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