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Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper by Stephen J. Dubner (2004, Paperback, Reprint)

Publisher: Harpercollins
Publication Date: 2004-02-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0380733145
ISBN-13: 9780380733149
Product ID: EPID4478342
Description: This sequel to Dubner's memoir, TURBULENT SOULS: A CATHOLIC SON'S RETURN TO HIS JEWISH FAMILY, sends Dubner to his childhood home, which has become a whorehouse. This time, in writing about his childhood, he emphasizes not his parents bu...
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Synopsis
This sequel to Dubner's memoir, TURBULENT SOULS: A CATHOLIC SON'S RETURN TO HIS JEWISH FAMILY, sends Dubner to his childhood home, which has become a whorehouse. This time, in writing about his childhood, he emphasizes not his parents but a Pittsburgh Steelers running back, Franco Harris, who was Dubner's idol in the 1970s. Dubner looks him up years later, finds him running a doughnut shop, and attempts to become his friend.

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Publication Date:2004-02-01
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Length:272 pages
Height:9.0 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:12.0 oz

Publisher's Note

As a boy, Stephen J. Dubner's hero was Franco Harris, the famed and mysterious running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers. When Dubner's father died, he became obsessed -- he dreamed of his hero every night; he signed his school papers “Franco Dubner.” Though they never met, it was Franco Harris who shepherded Dubner through a fatherless boyhood.

Twenty years later, Dubner, an accomplished writer, sees Harris on a magazine cover. His long-dormant obsession comes roaring back. He journeys to Pittsburgh, certain that Harris will embrace him. And he is...well, wrong.

Told with the grit of a journalist and the grace of a memoirist, Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper is a breathtaking, heartbreaking, and often humorous story of astonishing developments. It is also a sparkling meditation on the nature of hero worship -- which, like religion and love, tells us as much about ourselves as about the object of our desire.



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"Dubner seems confused about what to put into his memoir....Anything goes. In the mix are good points about his parents that would have been valuable in the first memoir and some first-class sportswriting. In the end one suspects that Dubner's desperation is not driven by his need to understand Franco Harris or even his father or himself, but by an ill-conceived literary project that had spun out of control."
New York Times Book Review - Fred Waitzkin (02/23/2003)

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