Man Made: In Which a Dad Learns to Be a Man for His Son
Autor Joel Steinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 mai 2013
So begins his quest to confront his effete nature whether he likes it or not (he doesn't), by doing a 24-hour shift with LA firefighters, going hunting, rebuilding a house, driving a Lamborghini, enduring three days of boot camp with the U.S. Army, day-trading with $100,000, and going into the ring with UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture. Seeking help from a panel of experts, including his manly father-in-law, Boy Scouts, former NFL star Warren Sapp, former MLB All-Star Shawn Green, Adam Carolla, and a pit bull named Hercules, he expects to learn that masculinity is defined not by the size of his muscles but by the size of his heart (also, technically, a muscle). This is not at all what he learns.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780446573115
ISBN-10: 0446573116
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 133 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10: 0446573116
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 133 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Grand Central Publishing
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Notă biografică
Joel
Stein
grew
up
in
Edison,
N.J.,
went
to
Stanford,
and
in
1997,
became
a
staff
writer
forTimemagazine.
In
1998,
he
began
writing
his
sophomoric
humor
column
which
now
appears
on
the
back
page
of
the
magazine
every
week.
He
also
writes
many
other
articles
forTime,
and
has
contributed
to
theNew
Yorker,GQ,Esquire,Details,Food
&
Wine,Travel
&
Leisure,Wired,Real
Simple,Sunset,Playboy,Elleand
many
more.
He has appeared as a talking head on many TV shows, taught a class in humor writing at Princeton, and wrote a column for theLos Angeles Timesfor four years. He and his wife live in Los Angeles with their son.
He has appeared as a talking head on many TV shows, taught a class in humor writing at Princeton, and wrote a column for theLos Angeles Timesfor four years. He and his wife live in Los Angeles with their son.
Recenzii
"This
is
much
more
than
a
funny
book,
though
it
is
that
too.
Beneath
the
humor
is
a
wonderfully
poignant
exploration
of
the
role
of
manliness
for
the
21st
century
urban
guy.
It's
also
a
Father's
Day
love
letter
disguised
as
a
set
of
adventure
tales.
Joel
looks
lovingly
at
both
his
crusty
old
dad
and
trusting
infant
son
to
reflect
deeply
on
the
lessons
that
we
pass
along
from
generation
to
generation.
It
made
me
laugh,
and
think,
a
lot."
--Walter Isaacson,#1New York Timesbestselling author ofSteve Jobs
"Many of us men in the Western world struggle with this "forced manliness"- there is a lot of pressure. For some, it is arealstruggle. I have seen Joel try to chew tobacco in an attempt to prove that estrogen does not imprison his body. Looking down at his lap and bashfully wiping the remnants of spilled tobacco off his J. Crew slacks did not help his cause. The fact that he laughed at it, though, did. He caught himself trying to be manly and laughed. That is a true man."--Zach Galifianakis
"I am the father only of daughters, and so didn't suffer any existential midlife panic about discovering and demonstrating my latent manliness. But I am happy Joel did, because his infant son inspired him to report and write this rare and splendid thing: an open-minded, open-hearted, bracingly honest, laugh-out-loud-funny memoir that takes life just seriously enough."
--Kurt Andersen,New York Timesbestselling author ofHeyday
"Despite his best efforts, I'm not sure if Joel Stein will ever be a man, but he made me laugh out loud trying inMan Made."--Andy Borowitz,New York Timesbestselling author and humorist
"Joel Stein is one of the funniest writers I've read. An incredible, hilarious saga of one man's transformation from really wimpy to just kind of wimpy."-Neil Strauss,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe GameandEmergency
"Joel Stein's book will make you act in a very unmanly way-you will spend hours giggling like a 5th grade girl. He writes about fatherhood and son-hood with great insight, humor and, yes, even poignancy. It made me proud to share the same basic gender with him"-AJ Jacobs,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Year of Living Biblically
"If Joel Stein can learn to be a man, a man in the old and rugged sense of the word, then anyone can. And that's what gives me hope. What gave me profound and dizzy pleasure, though, was reading this wild account of how he did it. I dare you to follow him on his dangerous quest and I double dare you not to laugh."-Walter Kirn,New York Timesbestselling author ofUp in the Air
"This entertaining and irreverent memoir will make you laugh out loud, teach you a surprising amount about various bastions of American masculinity, and leave you feeling glad that you're not married to Joel Stein."-Curtis Sittenfeld,New York Timesbestselling author ofPrepandAmerican Wife
"Stein proves himself to be a champion humorist by probing the serious side of his subject while peppering the paragraphs with numerous fresh and funny notions."
-Publisher's Weekly
"A consistently hilarious and surprisingly profound crash course in manliness... Charming, funny and life affirming"-Kirkus
"Feels like what might've happened if you'd sent Woody Allen to write George Plimpton'sPaper Lion...In between all the comedy, the book is often a perceptive account of how men relate to each other and a surprisingly tender story about the love that exists between fathers and sons."-San Francisco Chronicle
"To man up, Stein goes all Plimpton . . . MAN MADE reminds us of his wonderful ability to find surprise within a cliché . . . hilarious."-New York Times Book Review
--Walter Isaacson,#1New York Timesbestselling author ofSteve Jobs
"Many of us men in the Western world struggle with this "forced manliness"- there is a lot of pressure. For some, it is arealstruggle. I have seen Joel try to chew tobacco in an attempt to prove that estrogen does not imprison his body. Looking down at his lap and bashfully wiping the remnants of spilled tobacco off his J. Crew slacks did not help his cause. The fact that he laughed at it, though, did. He caught himself trying to be manly and laughed. That is a true man."--Zach Galifianakis
"I am the father only of daughters, and so didn't suffer any existential midlife panic about discovering and demonstrating my latent manliness. But I am happy Joel did, because his infant son inspired him to report and write this rare and splendid thing: an open-minded, open-hearted, bracingly honest, laugh-out-loud-funny memoir that takes life just seriously enough."
--Kurt Andersen,New York Timesbestselling author ofHeyday
"Despite his best efforts, I'm not sure if Joel Stein will ever be a man, but he made me laugh out loud trying inMan Made."--Andy Borowitz,New York Timesbestselling author and humorist
"Joel Stein is one of the funniest writers I've read. An incredible, hilarious saga of one man's transformation from really wimpy to just kind of wimpy."-Neil Strauss,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe GameandEmergency
"Joel Stein's book will make you act in a very unmanly way-you will spend hours giggling like a 5th grade girl. He writes about fatherhood and son-hood with great insight, humor and, yes, even poignancy. It made me proud to share the same basic gender with him"-AJ Jacobs,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Year of Living Biblically
"If Joel Stein can learn to be a man, a man in the old and rugged sense of the word, then anyone can. And that's what gives me hope. What gave me profound and dizzy pleasure, though, was reading this wild account of how he did it. I dare you to follow him on his dangerous quest and I double dare you not to laugh."-Walter Kirn,New York Timesbestselling author ofUp in the Air
"This entertaining and irreverent memoir will make you laugh out loud, teach you a surprising amount about various bastions of American masculinity, and leave you feeling glad that you're not married to Joel Stein."-Curtis Sittenfeld,New York Timesbestselling author ofPrepandAmerican Wife
"Stein proves himself to be a champion humorist by probing the serious side of his subject while peppering the paragraphs with numerous fresh and funny notions."
-Publisher's Weekly
"A consistently hilarious and surprisingly profound crash course in manliness... Charming, funny and life affirming"-Kirkus
"Feels like what might've happened if you'd sent Woody Allen to write George Plimpton'sPaper Lion...In between all the comedy, the book is often a perceptive account of how men relate to each other and a surprisingly tender story about the love that exists between fathers and sons."-San Francisco Chronicle
"To man up, Stein goes all Plimpton . . . MAN MADE reminds us of his wonderful ability to find surprise within a cliché . . . hilarious."-New York Times Book Review