
Do-Over!
Robin Hemley
(Author)Description
In the spirit of cult film classics like Billy Madison and Wet Hot American Summer, in Do-Over! Hemley reencounters papier-mâché, revisits his childhood home, and finally attends the prom -- bringing readers the thrill of recapturing a misspent youth and discovering what's most important: simple pleasures, second chances, and the forgotten joys of recess.
Product Details
Publisher | Little Brown and Company |
Publish Date | May 11, 2009 |
Pages | 336 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780316020602 |
Dimensions | 8.6 X 5.8 X 1.2 inches | 1.2 pounds |
About the Author
Robin received his MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop; he currently directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City, IA.
Reviews
"An utterly beguiling attempt to recover the past not by remembering it but by physically occupying it, or at least trying to."--David Shields, author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
"Robin Hemley is on my very short list of writers I not only wish to read, not only need to read, but downright can't wait to read. Do-Over! is quintessential Hemley, full of wit and invention and brilliant language and warm humanity and when you least expect it-mid-bellylaugh, mid-bon mot-he will sneak up on you with a dazzlingly smart, deep-cutting insight into human nature. Do-Over! is an instant classic."-Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
"Robin Hemley may not be able to play Greensleeves on the recorder, but he does know how to write a highly entertaining book." --A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically
"While it is frequently laugh-out-loud funny, what makes this book so absolutely endearing is the honesty and tender, humane insight of the author, and his reluctant, hard-won willingness to forgive his former self. A screwball premise winningly pulled off, "Do-Over" should charm readers everywhere." -Phillip Lopate, author of Portrait of My Body
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