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Air Traffic

- A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America
Af: Gregory Pardlo Engelsk Paperback

Air Traffic

- A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America
Af: Gregory Pardlo Engelsk Paperback
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From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition. 
 
Gregory Pardlo''s father was a brilliant and charismatic man--a leading labor organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four. But when he loses his job following the famous air traffic controllers'' strike of 1981, he succumbs to addiction and exhausts the family''s money on more and more ostentatious whims. In the face of this troubling model and disillusioned presence in the household, young Gregory rebels. Struggling to distinguish himself on his own terms, he hustles off to Marine Corps boot camp. He moves across the world, returning to the United States only to take a job as a manager-cum-barfly at his family''s jazz club. 

Air Traffic follows Gregory as he builds a life that honors his history without allowing it to define his future. Slowly, he embraces the challenges of being a poet, a son, and a father as he enters recovery for alcoholism and tends to his family. In this memoir, written in lyrical and sparkling prose, Gregory tries to free himself from the overwhelming expectations of race and class, and from the tempting yet ruinous legacy of American masculinity. 

Air Traffic is a richly realized, deeply felt ode to one man''s remarkable father, to fatherhood, and to the frustrating yet redemptive ties of family. It is also a scrupulous, searing examination of how manhood can be fashioned in our cultural landscape.
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From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition. 
 
Gregory Pardlo''s father was a brilliant and charismatic man--a leading labor organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four. But when he loses his job following the famous air traffic controllers'' strike of 1981, he succumbs to addiction and exhausts the family''s money on more and more ostentatious whims. In the face of this troubling model and disillusioned presence in the household, young Gregory rebels. Struggling to distinguish himself on his own terms, he hustles off to Marine Corps boot camp. He moves across the world, returning to the United States only to take a job as a manager-cum-barfly at his family''s jazz club. 

Air Traffic follows Gregory as he builds a life that honors his history without allowing it to define his future. Slowly, he embraces the challenges of being a poet, a son, and a father as he enters recovery for alcoholism and tends to his family. In this memoir, written in lyrical and sparkling prose, Gregory tries to free himself from the overwhelming expectations of race and class, and from the tempting yet ruinous legacy of American masculinity. 

Air Traffic is a richly realized, deeply felt ode to one man''s remarkable father, to fatherhood, and to the frustrating yet redemptive ties of family. It is also a scrupulous, searing examination of how manhood can be fashioned in our cultural landscape.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9780525432210
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0525432213
Udg. Dato: 19 mar 2019
Længde: 29mm
Bredde: 202mm
Højde: 133mm
Forlag: Random House USA Inc
Oplagsdato: 19 mar 2019
Forfatter(e): Gregory Pardlo
Forfatter(e) Gregory Pardlo


Kategori Selvbiografier: skønlitterære forfattere


ISBN-13 9780525432210


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 288


Udgave


Længde 29mm


Bredde 202mm


Højde 133mm


Udg. Dato 19 mar 2019


Oplagsdato 19 mar 2019


Forlag Random House USA Inc

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