Book : Someone Could Get Hurt A Memoir Of...

-Titulo Original : Someone Could Get Hurt A Memoir Of Twenty-first-century Parenthood

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A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir from the author of The Night the Lights Went Out, The Hike, and The Postmortal about fatherhood and the ups and downs of raising a family in modern America No one writes about family quite like Drew Magary. In Someone Could Get Hurt, he reflects on his own parenting experiences to explore the anxiety, rationalizations, compromises, and overpowering love that come with raising children.In brutally honest and funny stories, Magary reveals how American mothers and fathers cope with being in over their heads-from getting drunk while trick-or-treating and telling dirty jokes to make bath time go smoothly to committing petty vandalism to bond with a five-year-old.Someone Could Get Hurt offers a hilarious and heartfelt look at child rearing with a glimpse into the genuine love and compassion that accompany the missteps and flawed logic. It’s the story of head lice, almost-dirty words, flat head syndrome, and a man trying to commit the ultimate act of selflessness in a selfish world. Review “It’s an honest and hilarious portrayal of how aggravating it can be to raise a family.” -Justin Halpern, author of the New York Times bestseller Sh*t My Dad Says“The world needs Drew Magary’s wonderfully funny, breathtakingly honest book about parenting.”-Jen Doll, memoirist and senior writer at The Atlantic Wire“The Fathers Day book for dads who hate getting books for Father’s Day.”-Will Leitch, author of Are We Winning? and God Save the Fan“If you are a parent, I challenge you to not simultaneously laugh and sob through this entire book.”-Rachel Dratch, comedian and author of Girl Walks into a Bar...Praise for Drew Magary’s THE POSTMORTALUnnerving. . . . An absorbing picture of dawning apocalypse. . . . A disturbing portrait of a society convinced its close to utopia when a cure for aging is invented. Unsurprisingly, it doesnt take long for that seeming utopia to dissolve into a planet-overstressed from overpopulation, food and fuel shortages, and general lawlessness-going into systemic failure. . . . The Postmortal is a suitably chilling entry into the its-the-end-of-the-world canon. - The Austin ChronicleMagarys vision of future technology and science is eerily realistic. . . . By the time you finish, youll want to hold your loved ones close and stockpile bottles of water. If all else fails, you could potentially make a living selling them a few decades from now. - The New York PressMagarys vision of future technology and science is eerily realistic. . . . By the time you finish, youll want to hold your loved ones close and stockpile bottles of water. If all else fails, you could potentially make a living selling them a few decades from now. - Mark Frauenfelder, Boing BoingImmortality has figured in a number of sf novels prior to this one, but never, to my experience, in this way. . . . A very clear-eyed picture, one I dont think has been drawn before. . . . The Postmortal surprised me in a good way. - Michelle West, Fantasy & Science Fiction MagazineThe Postmortal is a punchy, fast-paced and endearing story. . . . As the novel progresses, it turns from a snappy morality tale, to a noir- ish revenge fable, to an action movie; complete with guns, rogue religious cults and government-sanctioned hit men. The narrative comes to us through Johns blog entries and collections of news bytes and pundit commentary. Through his sixty years as a 29-year-old, he experiences all the love, pain, grief, and terror of a standard lifetime and is still in good enough shape to kick some ass at the end. Like much good dystopian fiction, The Postmortal is an at-times unflattering commentary on human beings, present, past and future, that hits the mark in many ways. . . . For anyone intrigued with Life Extension science, its a fun examination of our fears and expectations. - The Nervous BreakdownA darkly comic, totally gonzo, and effectively frightening population- bomb