科图分类法:	K837.125.5/1 版次：
中图分类法:	K837.125.5 版次：
著者:	Pardlo, Gregory.
题名:	Air traffic : [ a memoir of ambition and manhood in America /] / ,
出版发行:	出版地： New York : 出版社： Alfred A. Knopf, 出版日期： 2018.
载体形态:	x, 253 p., 8 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
内容提要:	"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, his first work of prose: a deeply felt memoir of a family's bonds and a meditation on race, addiction, fatherhood, ambition, and American culture The Pardlos were an average, middle-class African American family living in a New Jersey Levittown: charismatic Gregory Sr., an air traffic controller, his wife, and their two sons, bookish Greg Jr. and musical-talent Robbie. But when "Big Greg" loses his job after participating in the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Strike of 1981, he becomes a disillusioned, toxic, looming presence in the household--and a powerful rival for young Greg. While Big Greg succumbs to addiction and exhausts the family's money, Greg Jr. rebels--he joins a boot camp for prospective Marines, follows a woman to Denmark, drops out of college again and again, and yields to alcoholism. Years later, he falls for a beautiful, no-nonsense woman named Ginger and becomes a parent himself. Then, he finally grapples with the irresistible yet ruinous legacy of masculinity he inherited from his father. In chronicling his path to recovery and adulthood--Gregory Pardlo gives us a compassionate, loving ode to his father, to fatherhood, and to the frustrating-yet-redemptive ties of family, as well as a scrupulous, searing examination of how African American manhood is shaped by contemporary American life"--
主题词:	African American authors 20th century
主题词:	Authors, American Family relationships. 20th century
主题词:	Fathers and sons United States.
索书号:	K837.125.5/1