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Do-Over!: In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments

Autor Robin Hemley
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 mai 2009
Robin Hemley's childhood made a wedgie of his memory, leaving him sore and embarrassed for over forty years. He was the most pitiful kindergartner, the least spirited summer camper, and dateless for prom. In fact, there's nary an event from his youth that couldn't use improvement. If only he could do them all over a few decades later, with an adult's wisdom, perspective, and giant-like height...

In the spirit of cult film classics likeBilly MadisonandWet Hot American Summer, in DO-OVER! Hemley reencounters paper mache, revisits his childhood home, and finally attends the prom--bringing readers the thrill of recapturing a misspent youth and discovering what's most important: simple pleasures, second chances, and the forgotten joys of recess.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316020602
ISBN-10: 0316020605
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 146 x 216 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company

Notă biografică

Robin Hemley is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on DO-OVER!. He has published seven books, and his stories and essays have appeared in theNew York Times,New York Magazine,Chicago Tribune, and many literary magazines and anthologies. Robin received his MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop; he currently directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City, IA.

Recenzii

"Robin Hemley may not be able to play Greensleeves on the recorder, but he does know how to write a highly entertaining book." 
A.J. Jacobs,author of The Year of Living Biblically
"An utterly beguiling attempt to recover the past not by remembering it but by physically occupying it, or at least trying to."—David Shields,author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
"Do-Over!is oneof the funniest, wisest, most perfectly observed books I've ever read. Robin Hemley possesses a keen insight into the all-too-human wish to rectifyour past mistakes.  He also knows that we are better for having made them."-BernardCooper, author ofThe Bill From My FatherBernard Cooper,author of The Bill From My Father
"While itis frequently laugh-out-loud funny, what makes this book so absolutelyendearing is the honesty and tender, humane insight of the author,and his reluctant, hard-won willingness to forgive his former self. A screwball premise winningly pulled off, "Do-Over" should charmreaders everywhere." -PhillipLopate,  author ofPortrait of My Body
"RobinHemley is on my very short list of writers I not only wish to read, not onlyneed to read, but downright can't wait to read. Do-Over!isquintessential Hemley, full of wit and invention and brilliant language andwarm humanity and when you least expect it-mid-bellylaugh, mid-bon mot-he willsneak up on you with a dazzlingly smart, deep-cutting insight into humannature. Do-Over!is an instant classic."-Robert Olen Butler,Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofA Good Scent from a Strange Mountain