Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America
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BIOGRAPHY PARDLO
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x, 253 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"This is a Borzoi book"--Verso.
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Library Journal Prepub Alert,110117
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Booklist,,020118, p. 15
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Kirkus Review - Adult,021518
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Publisher's Weekly,031218
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Library Journal,,040118, p. 73
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"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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Pardlo, G. (2018). Air traffic: a memoir of ambition and manhood in America (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pardlo, Gregory. 2018. Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pardlo, Gregory. Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Pardlo, Gregory. Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
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