The Book of Dads

图书信息

作者	George, Ben
出版社	HarperCollins e-books
ISBN	9780061874208
出版时间	2009-05-01
字数	35.7万
分类	HarperCollins e-books,进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

At turns humorous, irreverent, poignant and tender, The Book of Dads brings together twenty well-known and beloved writers on the subject of fatherhood, offering fathers or anyone who has been or loved a parent unrivaled insights into the complexity of fatherhood as it's experienced now. It is a literary reader for the contemporary dad, hip and on point, but with an eye toward becoming a classic for readers return to again and again. Contributors include Ben Fountain, Charles Baxter, Jim Shepard, Clyde Edgerton, Neal Pollack, Rick Bragg, Anthony Doerr, Michael Thomas, Davy Rothbart, Richard Bausch, Nick Flynn, Brandon R. Schrand, Rick Bass, Sebastian Matthews, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Steve Almond, David Gessner, Darin Strauss, Brock Clarke, and Sven Birkerts

目录

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Introduction

The Night Shift

The Chaos Machine

In Ten Years He’s Got a Chance to Be Thirty

The Job, by the Numbers

What I Can Offer

Candy Man

Nine Times (Among Countless Others) I’ve Thought About the People Who Came Before Us in My Brief Career as a Father

For Ella

Zeke

Fault

Here Comes the Sun

Comparative History

Notes from Adolescence

A Year in the Life of a Homebound Wanderer, Master Avery in Attendance

The Sleepwalker

Everyone into the Bunker!

A Tale of Two Fathers

Eleven Thoughts on Being the Father of Eleven-Month-Old Twin Boys

Remember the Banana

The Points of Sail

Contributors

Acknowledgments

About the Editor

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher