Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon

Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon

"Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus stories with the metaphor-rich descriptions of John Updike and John Irving's inventive sleight of hand. . . . As in his novels, he shifts gears easily between the comic and the melancholy, the whimsical and the serious, demonstrating once again his ability to write about the big subjects of love and memory and regret without falling prey to the Scylla and Charybdis of cynicism and sentimentality."

-- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"Wondrous, wise and beautiful."

-- David Kamp, New York Times Book Review

The bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Werewolves in Their Youth, Wonderboys, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon "takes [his] brutally observant, unfailingly honest, marvelously human gaze and turns it on his own life" (Time) in the New York Times bestselling memoir Manhood for Amateurs.

Michael Chabon is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Wonder Boys, which was adapted into a feature film starring Michael Douglas. His recent novel, The Incredible Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, was named one of the best books of 2000 by Entertainment Weekly. Brilliance Audio sells both of them. He graduated with a B.A. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Pittsburgh.

university of california-irvine He resides in California with his wife and two children.