Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
By: Michael Chabon
3.72
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
“Magical prose stylist” Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of …
Want to Read $ 13.99"Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake."-Michael Chabon, Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
"The handy thing about being a father is that the historical standard is so pitifully low."-Michael Chabon, Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
"Books were hungry things, and if you stayed too long in any one place, they would consume everything and everyone around you."-Michael Chabon, Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
"At least he kept trying to express himself, his real self, as motley and inchoate for now as the outfit he was wearing. And maybe that was part of the purpose of middle school: to give you something to work against, to press upon, as you attempted to fashion a self from the lump of contradictory impulses and emotions and paradigms that your mind and your culture presented."-Michael Chabon, Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
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Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
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