The Resource Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America, Gregory Pardlo
Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America, Gregory Pardlo
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The item Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America, Gregory Pardlo represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Newburyport Public Library.
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- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- An introduction: Rt. 66
- The up-to-daters club
- Student union
- Loser
- What is your quest?
- Air traffic
- The minority business consortium
- Cartography
- A moving violation
- Marine boy
- The wreck of the conquest
- He ain't heavy
- "Hurrah for Schoelcher!"
- Colored people's time
- Private school
- Tolle, Lege
- Behind the wheel
- The strip
- On Intervention
- Isbn
- 9781524731762
- Label
- Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America
- Title
- Air traffic
- Title remainder
- a memoir of ambition and manhood in America
- Statement of responsibility
- Gregory Pardlo
- Subject
-
- Autobiographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
- Fathers and sons -- United States
- African American authors -- 20th century -- Biography
- Pardlo, Gregory
- Pardlo, Gregory -- Family
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pardlo, Gregory
- Dewey number
-
- 811/.6
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3616.A737
- LC item number
- Z46 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Pardlo, Gregory
- Pardlo, Gregory
- African American authors
- Authors, American
- Fathers and sons
- Fathers and sons
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS
- Label
- Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America, Gregory Pardlo
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- An introduction: Rt. 66 -- The up-to-daters club -- Student union -- Loser -- What is your quest? -- Air traffic -- The minority business consortium -- Cartography -- A moving violation -- Marine boy -- The wreck of the conquest -- He ain't heavy -- "Hurrah for Schoelcher!" -- Colored people's time -- Private school -- Tolle, Lege -- Behind the wheel -- The strip -- On Intervention
- Control code
- on1019834845
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781524731762
- Lccn
- 2017047413
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1019834845
- Label
- Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America, Gregory Pardlo
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- An introduction: Rt. 66 -- The up-to-daters club -- Student union -- Loser -- What is your quest? -- Air traffic -- The minority business consortium -- Cartography -- A moving violation -- Marine boy -- The wreck of the conquest -- He ain't heavy -- "Hurrah for Schoelcher!" -- Colored people's time -- Private school -- Tolle, Lege -- Behind the wheel -- The strip -- On Intervention
- Control code
- on1019834845
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781524731762
- Lccn
- 2017047413
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1019834845
Subject
- Autobiographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
- Fathers and sons -- United States
- African American authors -- 20th century -- Biography
- Pardlo, Gregory
- Pardlo, Gregory -- Family
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships
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