Do-Over!: In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments
Autor Robin Hemleyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 mai 2009
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
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 Father—Bernard 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