The Hero's Body: A Memoir [Paperback]

At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldis father was killed in a horrific motorcycle crash while racing on a country road. This tragedy, which forever altered the young Giraldi and devastated his family, provides the pulse forGiraldi writes with subtlety about the unsubtle world of clanging metal, exploring with frank tenderness the ways men form friendships and how those friendships can grow into love.A wise and thoughtful personal narrative as well as an illuminating portrait of a seductive, if hazardous, American subculture. . . .A memoir of motorcycles and muscles,of obsession and grief, and of a youngman who learned how to stay alivethrough literature.