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When I First Held You : 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transfo Rmative Experience of Fatherhood by Brian Gresko, Darin Strauss, Dennis Lehane, Lev Grossman, David Bezmozgis, Alexi Zentner, Anthony Doerr, Ben Greenman, André Aciman, Justin Cronin, Stephen O'Connor, Chris Bachelder, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Peter Ho Davies, Bruce Machart, Matthew Specktor, Benjamin Percy, Frederick Reiken, Rick Moody, Steve Edwards, Marco Roth, Bob Smith, Garth Stein, Andre Dubus III is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is When I First Held You : 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transfo Rmative Experience of Fatherhood about?
From some of today's most critically acclaimed writers—including Dennis Lehane, Justin Cronin, Andre Dubus III, and Benjamin Percy—comes a rich collection of essays on what it means to be a dad. Becoming a father can be one of the most profoundly terrifying, exhilarating, life-changing occasions in a man's life. Now 22 of today's masterful writers get straight to the heart of modern fatherhood in this incomparable collection of thought-provoking essays. From making that ultimate decision to have a kid to making it through the birth to tangling with a toddler mid-tantrum, and eventually letting a teen loose in the world, these fathers explore every facet of fatherhood and show how being a father changed the way they saw the world—and themselves.“One of the first things I learned about fatherhood was that my father was right: it was hard and it kicked the shit out of your life plan.”—Lev Grossman“I wanted to hold him. I wanted to hold him close and never let go. But we have to let go, don't we?”—Andre Dubus III “Bridges are engineered. Children are worked toward, clumsily, imperfectly, with a deep and almost religious faith in trial and error.”—Ben Greenman“If you counted up the nigh
Who reads When I First Held You : 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transfo Rmative Experience of Fatherhood?
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- Author
- Brian Gresko, Darin Strauss, Dennis Lehane, Lev Grossman, David Bezmozgis, Alexi Zentner, Anthony Doerr, Ben Greenman, André Aciman, Justin Cronin, Stephen O'Connor, Chris Bachelder, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Peter Ho Davies, Bruce Machart, Matthew Specktor, Benjamin Percy, Frederick Reiken, Rick Moody, Steve Edwards, Marco Roth, Bob Smith, Garth Stein, Andre Dubus III
- Publisher
- Berkley Books
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780425269244
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Family & Relationships, Literary Collections
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (55 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
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