Air traffic
By Pardlo, Gregory
Book

Air traffic :a memoir of ambition and manhood in America

by
Pardlo, Gregory. author.
Format
Book
Language
English (English)
Subjects
Pardlo, Gregory(DLC)no2005087851
Pardlo, GregoryFamily.(WiMaSCL)4901452
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Publisher and Date
New York :Alfred A. Knopf,2018.
©2018
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781524731762.
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1524731765.
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9780525432210.
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0525432213.
Library of Congress Call Number
PS3616.A737Z46 2018
Geographic Area Code
n-us---
Description
x, 253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :illustrations ;22 cm
Contents (as listed on item)
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Summary"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, his first work of prose: a deeply felt memoir of a family's bonds and a meditation on race, addiction, fatherhood, ambition, and American culture The Pardlos were an average, middle-class African American family living in a New Jersey Levittown: charismatic Gregory Sr., an air traffic controller, his wife, and their two sons, bookish Greg Jr. and musical-talent Robbie. But when "Big Greg" loses his job after participating in the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Strike of 1981, he becomes a disillusioned, toxic, looming presence in the household--and a powerful rival for young Greg. While Big Greg succumbs to addiction and exhausts the family's money, Greg Jr. rebels--he joins a boot camp for prospective Marines, follows a woman to Denmark, drops out of college again and again, and yields to alcoholism. Years later, he falls for a beautiful, no-nonsense woman named Ginger and becomes a parent himself. Then, he finally grapples with the irresistible yet ruinous legacy of masculinity he inherited from his father. In chronicling his path to recovery and adulthood--Gregory Pardlo gives us a compassionate, loving ode to his father, to fatherhood, and to the frustrating-yet-redemptive ties of family, as well as a scrupulous, searing examination of how African American manhood is shaped by contemporary American life"--Provided by publisher.
Online version:Online version:Pardlo, Gregory.Air traffic.First edition.New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 20189781524731779(DLC) 2017060202
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