<blockquote> <p> A Best Book Of The Year </p> <p> <i>Time ? St. Louis Post-Dispatch ? Kansas City Star San Francisco Chronicle ? NPR ? Seattle Times</i> </p> </blockquote> <p> A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, <i>Manhood for Amateurs</i> is the first sustained work of personal writing from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writers addresses with his characteristic warmth and lyric wit the all-important question: What does it mean to be a man today? </p>