Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son AUTH-12963896 Rose in the Afternoon (1974)

Rose in the Afternoon (1974)

And when John Wilkes Booth plotted with his accomplices to carry out an assassination

Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living--from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores to religion--Generation of Vipers

As an NCR representative said

Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son AUTH-12963896 Rose in the Afternoon (1974)"Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus stories with the metaphor rich descriptions of John Updike and John Irving's inventive sleight of hand. . . . As in his novels, he shifts gears easily between the comic and the melancholy, the whimsical and the serious, demonstrating once again his ability to write about the big subjects of love and