{"product_id":"9781631492075","title":"The Hero's Body: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eA memoir of motorcycles and muscles, of obsession and grief, and of a young man who learned how to stay alive through literature.\u003c\/p\u003e At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi’s father was killed in a horrific motorcycle crash while racing on a country road. This tragedy, which forever altered the young Giraldi and devastated his family, provides the pulse for \u003cem\u003eThe Hero’s Body\u003c\/em\u003e. In the tradition of Andre Dubus III’s \u003cem\u003eTownie\u003c\/em\u003e, this is a deep-seeing investigation into two generations of men from the working-class town of Manville, New Jersey, including Giraldi’s own forays into obsessive bodybuilding as a teenager desperate to be worthy of his family’s pitiless, exacting codes of manhood. Lauded by \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e for his “unrelenting, perfectly paced prose,” Giraldi writes here with daring, searing honesty about the fragility and might of the American male. An unflinching memoir of luminous sorrow, a son’s tale of a lost father and the ancient family strictures of extreme masculinity, \u003cem\u003eThe Hero’s Body\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of lasting beauty by one of our most fearless writers.","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152031826160,"sku":"9781631492075","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781631492075_p0.jpg?v=1763672168","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781631492075","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}