At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldiās 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 Heroās Body. In the tradition of Andre Dubus IIIās Townie, this is a deep-seeing investigation into two generations of men from the working-class town of Manville, New Jersey, including Giraldiās own forays into obsessive bodybuilding as a teenager desperate to be worthy of his familyās pitiless, exacting codes of manhood. Lauded by The New Yorker for his āunrelenting, perfectly paced prose,ā Giraldi writes here with daring, searing honesty about the fragility and might of the American male. An unflinching memoir of luminous sorrow, a sonās tale of a lost father and the ancient family strictures of extreme masculinity, The Heroās Body is a work of lasting beauty by one of our most fearless writers.
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