{"product_id":"9780857301086","title":"The Heros Body","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Giraldi, William \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 23 August 2017 by Bedford Square Publishers (No Exit Press) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e130 x 198 x 20 | 232g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Heros Body is a memoir of what it means to be a man in modern America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldis 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 fathers superbikes, each Sunday spent racing fate along the winding back roads of Pennsylvania; the trauma of a sons ultimate loss, and Williams 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 familys imperious patriarchs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A work of lasting literary beauty, lauded by the New Yorker for its unrelenting, perfectly paced prose, The Heros Body is a tale of the working-class male, the codes of machismo and the unspoken bond between father and son.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40578807660679,"sku":"9780857301086","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9780857301086_0f1723a2-aff7-42bd-be27-5ae93db66377.jpg?v=1741635219","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.pro\/products\/9780857301086","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}