Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393069013)

When he became a father, Michael Lewis found himself expected to feel things that he didn't feel, and to do things that he couldn't see the point of doing. At first this made him feel guilty, until he realized that all around him fathers were pretending to do one thing, to feel one way, when in fact they felt and did all sorts of things, then engaged in what amounted to an extended cover-up.

Lewis 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.

Author: Michael Lewis
ISBN-10: 039306901X
ISBN-13: 9780393069013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2009
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.94w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2009 pg. 62
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2009
Publishers Weekly 04/13/2009 pg. 38
Vanity Fair 06/01/2009 pg. 62
People Weekly 06/01/2009 pg. 53
New Yorker (The) 06/29/2009 pg. 76
New York Times Book Review 06/28/2009 pg. 17
Commonweal 09/11/2009 pg. 28
Library Journal Annex 05/11/2009