At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi\'s father was killed in a horrific motorcycle accident.  Writing here with searing honesty about grief, obsession, shame and identity, he looks back on three generations of men from the blue-collar town of Manville, New Jersey, and tells their stories in tandem: the speed-crazed cult of his father’s superbikes, the trauma of a son’s ultimate loss, and William’s attempts to rebuild a self in the manliest costume he knew.  For a teen consumed by hard-core bodybuilding, pumping iron was so much more than a sport it was a hallowed lifeline for a bookish tenth-grader, a way to forge himself a spot amongst his family s imperious patriarchs. A work of lasting literary beauty, The Hero’s Body is a tale of the working-class male, the codes of machismo and the unspoken bond between father and son. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780857301086 • Author: William Giraldi • Publisher: No Exit Press • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 2 x 13 cm