Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood

by Michael Lewis

Overview

The New York Times bestseller: “Hilarious. No mushy tribute to the joys of fatherhood, Lewis’ book addresses the good, the bad, and the merely baffling about having kids.”—Boston Globe

When Michael Lewis became a father, he decided to keep a written record of what actually happened immediately after the birth of each of his three children. This book is that record. But it is also something else: maybe the funniest, most unsparing account of ordinary daily household life ever recorded, from the point of view of the man inside. The remarkable thing about this story isn’t that Lewis is so unusual. It’s that he is so typical. The only wonder is that his wife has allowed him to publish it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393338096
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	06/07/2010
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	277,275
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, and The Fifth Risk. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his family.

Date of Birth:

October 15, 1960

Place of Birth:

New Orleans, LA

Education:

Princeton University, B.A. in Art History, 1982; London School of Economics, 1985

Editorial Reviews

His failings amuse . . . and he captures serious moments with a warmth that shows he’s a pretty good dad after all.

People

Funny, frank, and engaging. It’s refreshing to hear a dad describe so vividly the uglier aspects of the job.

Los Angeles Times

"Unabashedly frank, hilarious and sweetly sentimental....a somewhat daring and in many ways groundbreaking book about what it’s like to be a father in modern America....intensely honest."

BookPage - Amy Scribner

"He captures serious issues with a warmth that shows he's a pretty good dad after all."

People Pick - People Magazine - Kyle Smith

"Lewis's style is funny, frank, and engaging, and he gets a lot of comic mileage telling tales at his own expense....it's refreshing to hear a dad describe so vividly the uglier aspects of the job."

The Los Angeles Times - Christopher Noxon

"Lewis writes memorable, insightful, yet simple and brisk sentences as easily as the rest of us breathe."

The New York Times Book Review - Marc Tracy

"Lewis is an insouciant raconteur who can spin out even standard dad stories (about, say, sending a kid to school dressed outlandishly) without making them sound stale."

Slate - Ann Hulbert

"Home Game, which was adapted from a series of Slate essays and is an accordingly zippy read, is hilarious but painfully candid, one man’s uneasy reckoning with the potentially devastating consequences of parenting. It’s unsparing, but Lewis is as honest with himself as he’s been with his subjects. Grade: A-."

The Onion AV Club

Lewis recounts the daily happenings of parenting his three children—from household activities to school to vacations. It's not that they’re extraordinary or that he's some kind of superdad. It's that they’re so ordinary, so typical. Any parent can identify. Dan John Miller is well suited to the work. He varies his tone and pacing, making the narration more of a conversation than a straight reading. Miller delivers the humor naturally, without making it sound like some kind of stand-up routine. His juvenile voices sound a little cartoonish, but few narrators do carry off that bit of audio magic. In sum, Miller’s reading exactly suits the content and style of the writing. R.C.G. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

JUNE 2009 - AudioFile