The Book of Men: Eighty Writers on How to Be a Man [Paperback]

Eighty pieces of short fiction and nonfiction on manhood by some of the world's best writers, presented by Colum McCann,Esquire, and Narrative 4.

To help launch the literary nonprofit Narrative 4,Esquireasked eighty of the world's greatest writers to chip in with a story, all with the title, How to Be a Man.

The result isThe Book of Men, an unflinching investigation into the essence of masculinity.

The Book of Menprobes, with the poignant honesty and imagination that only these writers could deliver, the slippery condition of manhood. You will find men striving and searching, learning and failing to learn, triumphing and aspiring; men who are lost and men navigating their way toward redemption. These stories don't just explore what it is to be a man or how to achieve manliness, but ultimately what it is to be a humanwith all of its uncertainty, complexity, clumsiness, and beauty.

With contributions from literary luminaries as diverse as the subjects they capture, and curated by the editors ofEsquire, National Book Award winner Colum McCann, and Narrative 4, a global nonprofit devoted to using storytelling as a means to empathy,The Book of Menmight not teach you how to negotiate a deal or mix a Manhattan, but it does scratch at that most eternal of questions: What is a man?

Colum McCann, a contributing editor atEsquireand cofounder of Narrative 4, is the National Book Awardwinning author ofLet the Great World Spin. He is also the author ofDancer,Everything in This Country Must,This Side of Brightness,Fishing the Sloe-Black River, andSongdogs. His new novel isTransAtlantic.

Esquireis a general interest men's magazine published by Hearst. Since its founding in 1933, it has been a showcase for the world's premiere fiction, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Stephen King.

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