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Do-Over!: In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and

Do-Over!: In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and

by ROBIN HEMLEY

Little, Brown And Company | October 27, 2010 | Hardcover

Robin Hemley''s childhood made a wedgie of his memory, leaving him sore and embarrassed for over forty years. He was the most pitiful kindergartner, the least spirited summer camper, and dateless for prom. In fact, there''s nary an event from his youth that couldn''t use improvement. If only he could do them all over a few decades later, with an adult''s wisdom, perspective, and giant-like height...

In the spirit of cult film classics like Billy Madison and Wet Hot American Summer, in DO-OVER! Hemley reencounters paper mache, revisits his childhood home, and finally attends the prom--bringing readers the thrill of recapturing a misspent youth and discovering what''s most important: simple pleasures, second chances, and the forgotten joys of recess.
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Robin Hemley''s childhood made a wedgie of his memory, leaving him sore and embarrassed for over forty years. He was the most pitiful kindergartner, the least spirited summer camper, and dateless for prom. In fact, there''s nary an event from his youth that couldn''t use improvement. If only he could do them all over a few decades later, with an adult''s wisdom, perspective, and giant-like height...

In the spirit of cult film classics like Billy Madison and Wet Hot American Summer, in DO-OVER! Hemley reencounters paper mache, revisits his childhood home, and finally attends the prom--bringing readers the thrill of recapturing a misspent youth and discovering what''s most important: simple pleasures, second chances, and the forgotten joys of recess.

About the Author

Robin Hemley is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on DO-OVER!. He has published seven books, and his stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and many literary magazines and anthologies. Robin received his MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop; he currently directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City, IA.

Hardcover

336 Pages, 5.75 x 8.5 x 1.12 in

October 27, 2010

Little, Brown And Company

English


0316020605
9780316020602

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"Robin Hemley is on my very short list of writers I not only wish to read, not only need to read, but downright can''t wait to read.  Do-Over! is quintessential Hemley, full of wit and invention and brilliant language and warm humanity and when you least expect it-mid-bellylaugh, mid-bon mot-he will sneak up on you with a dazzlingly smart, deep-cutting insight into human nature.  Do-Over! is an instant classic."-Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

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