Air Traffic
Author: Pardlo, Gregory
ISBN: 9780525432210
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 19 Mar 2019
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition.
Plt;bPgt;From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition.P#160;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt; P#160;Plt;brPgt;Gregory PardloP#39;s father was a brilliant and charismatic man--a leading labor organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four. But when he loses his job following the famous air traffic controllersP#39; strike of 1981, he succumbs to addiction and exhausts the familyP#39;s money on more and more ostentatious whims. In the face of this troubling model and disillusioned presence in the household, young Gregory rebels. Struggling to distinguish himself on his own terms, he hustles off to Marine Corps boot camp. He moves across the world, returning to the United States only to take a job as a manager-cum-barfly at his familyP#39;s jazz club.P#160;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;Air TrafficPlt;/iPgt; follows Gregory as he builds a life that honors his history without allowing it to define his future. Slowly, he embraces the challenges of being a poet, a son, and a father as he enters recovery for alcoholism and tends to his family. In this memoir, written in lyrical and sparkling prose, Gregory tries to free himself from the overwhelming expectations of race and class, and from the tempting yet ruinous legacy of American masculinity.P#160;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;Air TrafficPlt;/iPgt; is a richly realized, deeply felt ode to one manP#39;s remarkable father, to fatherhood, and to the frustrating yet redemptive ties of family. It is also a scrupulous, searing examination of how manhood can be fashioned in our cultural landscape.
ISBN: 9780525432210
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 19 Mar 2019
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition.
Plt;bPgt;From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition.P#160;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt; P#160;Plt;brPgt;Gregory PardloP#39;s father was a brilliant and charismatic man--a leading labor organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four. But when he loses his job following the famous air traffic controllersP#39; strike of 1981, he succumbs to addiction and exhausts the familyP#39;s money on more and more ostentatious whims. In the face of this troubling model and disillusioned presence in the household, young Gregory rebels. Struggling to distinguish himself on his own terms, he hustles off to Marine Corps boot camp. He moves across the world, returning to the United States only to take a job as a manager-cum-barfly at his familyP#39;s jazz club.P#160;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;Air TrafficPlt;/iPgt; follows Gregory as he builds a life that honors his history without allowing it to define his future. Slowly, he embraces the challenges of being a poet, a son, and a father as he enters recovery for alcoholism and tends to his family. In this memoir, written in lyrical and sparkling prose, Gregory tries to free himself from the overwhelming expectations of race and class, and from the tempting yet ruinous legacy of American masculinity.P#160;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;Air TrafficPlt;/iPgt; is a richly realized, deeply felt ode to one manP#39;s remarkable father, to fatherhood, and to the frustrating yet redemptive ties of family. It is also a scrupulous, searing examination of how manhood can be fashioned in our cultural landscape.
