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 The Hero’s Body. In the tradition of Andre Dubus III’s Townie, 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 The New Yorker 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, The Hero’s Body is a work of lasting beauty
by one of our most fearless writers.
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