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Book SynopsisNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by
Kirkus Reviews (Nonfiction)
A memoir of motorcycles and muscles, of obsession and grief, and of a young man who learned how to stay alive through literature.
Trade Review"Giraldi writes with subtlety about the unsubtle world of clanging metal, exploring with frank tenderness the ways men form friendships and how those friendships can grow into love.
The Hero’s Body is suffused with platonic masculine love, the love of weight lifting buddies and motorcycles and the men who ride them, in particular the author’s doomed father. . . . Giraldi has written a powerful and sympathetic accounting of the lengths men will go to discover themselves through the workings of their fragile and complicated bodies, and the ways they discover hidden strength." -- Michael Ian Black - New York Times Book Review
"A wise and thoughtful personal narrative as well as an illuminating portrait of a seductive, if hazardous, American subculture. . . .
The Hero’s Body itself captures a merging of hard experience and literary aspiration. In this gathering of memories, a gifted writer has certainly found the right words." -- Gordon Marino - Wall Street Journal
