Soft-Boiled: An Investigation of Masculinity and the Writer's Life
Soft-Boiled: An Investigation of Masculinity and the Writer's Life
West, Stephen J.
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Condition: New, UPC: 9780982783870, Publication Date: Fri, July 1, 2022, Type: Paperback ,
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New father wrestles with the masculinity question--shadows a private eye as experiment.

SOFT-BOILED follows Stephen J. West as he shadows a private investigator by the name of Frank Streets. What starts out as a last-ditch effort to write West's first book--while juggling responsibilities as a husband and new father--becomes a critical reflection on art-making, storytelling, and masculinity in America. Blending memoir, reportage, criticism, and detective thriller into one capacious yet focused narrative, SOFT-BOILED is a lyrical and aching self-reflexive portrait of an artist that asks the questions so many men are afraid to ask.

A unique, wandering study with plenty of thought-provoking, endearing twists--Kirkus

SOFT-BOILED is a magical genre remix that challenges received ideas of American Manhood and the Lone Artist, while simultaneously delivering a thrilling and comedic detective noir and moving family drama--Torrey Peters

SOFT-BOILED leaves no stone unturned in its investigation of this unified myth of American manhood, and West is a smart, fun, kind-hearted investigator, willing--like Frank Streets, the enigma at the book's center--to let us ride along and see what happens next--Lucas Mann

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