{"product_id":"9780857301086","title":"Hero's Body","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hero's Body\u003c\/em\u003e is a memoir of what it means to be a man in modern America.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hero's Body\u003c\/em\u003e is a memoir of what it means to be a man in modern America.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi's father was killed in a horrific motorcycle accident. Writing here with searing honesty about grief, obsession, shame and identity, he looks back on three generations of men from the blue-collar town of Manville, New Jersey, and tells their stories in tandem: the speed-crazed cult of his father's 'superbikes', each Sunday spent racing fate along the winding back roads of Pennsylvania; the trauma of a son's ultimate loss, and William's attempts to rebuild a self in the manliest costume he knew. For a teen consumed by hardcore bodybuilding, pumping iron was so much more than a sport-it was a hallowed lifeline for a bookish tenth-grader, a way to forge himself a spot amongst his family's imperious patriarchs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA work of lasting literary beauty, lauded by the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e for its 'unrelenting, perfectly paced prose', \u003cem\u003eThe Hero's Body\u003c\/em\u003e is a tale of the working-class male, the codes of machismo and the unspoken bond between father and son.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Giraldi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46898424545429,"sku":"9780857301086","price":23.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780857301086_b7f3d7c9-6dae-453b-b261-57c6f25e57ee.jpg?v=1776888137","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780857301086","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}