Air traffic: a memoir of ambition and manhood in America
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9781524731762
9780525432210
9780525432210
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| Grouping Title | air traffic a memoir of ambition and manhood in america |
| Grouping Author | gregory pardlo |
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| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2024-04-25 18:36:03PM |
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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"--
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Wake County Public Libraries
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9781524731762
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2018
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Alfred A. Knopf
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African American authors -- 20th century -- Biography
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships
Autobiographies
Fathers and sons -- United States
Pardlo, Gregory
Pardlo, Gregory -- Family
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships
Autobiographies
Fathers and sons -- United States
Pardlo, Gregory
Pardlo, Gregory -- Family
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Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America
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Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America / Gregory Pardlo
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Air traffic
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a memoir of ambition and manhood in America
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African American authors
Authors, American
Family
Family relationships
Fathers and sons
Pardlo, Gregory
Authors, American
Family
Family relationships
Fathers and sons
Pardlo, Gregory
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