Description
Searching for a more expansive vision of masculinity, Dirtbag, Massachusetts is a remarkable coming-of-age memoir that heralds the arrival of a soaring literary talent
About the Author
Isaac Fitzgerald appears frequently on The Today Show and is the author of the bestselling children's book How to Be a Pirate as well as the co-author of Pen & Ink and Knives & Ink (winner of an IACP Award). His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Best American Nonrequired Reading, and numerous other publications. He lives in Brooklyn.
Reviews
Fitzgerald nestles comfortably on a bar stool beside writers like Kerouac, Bukowski, Richard Price and Pete Hamill . . . An endearing and tattered catalog of one man's transgressions and the ways in which it is our sins, far more than our virtues, that make us who we are * New York Times Book Review *
Isaac Fitzgerald's memoir-in-essays is a bighearted read infused with candor, sharp humor, and the hope that comes from discovering saints can be found in all sorts of places * Rolling Stone *
Fitzgerald reflects on his origins?and coming to terms with self-consciousness, anger, and strained family relationships. His writing is gritty yet vulnerable * TIME *
Fitzgerald never stopped searching for a community that would embrace him. That search took him from San Francisco to Burma (now Myanmar), and he candidly shares the formative experiences that helped him put aside anger to live with acceptance and understanding * Washington Post *
The best of what memoir can accomplish . . . pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always finds the capacity for grace and joy * Esquire, Best Memoirs of the Year *
[Fitzgerald] reflects on how his journey has both formed him as a man and helped to change his views of masculinity, race and identity. And while his recollections are pervaded by considerations of manliness, he never shuts out other genders or ways of being * Los Angeles Times *
Isaac Fitzgerald contains multitudes in this frank, engaging memoir: severely lapsed Catholic, lifelong rabble-rouser, well-inked tattoo aficionado. [The tales] recounted here find the bittersweet spot between dirtbag and sublime * Entertainment Weekly *
Any fool can confess. It's the rare writer who reveals, and Dirtbag, Massachusetts is a heart on the sleeve, demons in check, eyes unblinking, unbearably sad, laugh-out-loud funny revelation -- Marlon James, Winner of the Booker Prize
Dirtbag, Massachusetts is a wondrously crafted confessional in every sense of the word, one of the finest, and really sneakiest narrative boasts I've read in decades. Isaac Fitzgerald will remind you of the wobbly majesty possible when fears of tomorrow and yesterday are innovatively confronted and masculinity is shredded. Goodness gracious -- Kiese Laymon, author of HEAVY
Book Information
ISBN 9781526659538
Author Isaac Fitzgerald
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC