LEONARD
KRIEGEL
FLYING
SOLO
REIMAGINING
MANHOOD, COURAGE,
AND
LOSS
Childhood pol io left Leonard Kriegel without the
use of his legs .
Flying Solo
is a portrait of
masculinity seen through a lens that makes
everything look different:
recog nizable-but
reininvented , intensified ,
and utterly hard-won.
"A powerful meditation
upon what it means to be
a man in America . A
book that will make every
reader, male or female ,
more human ."
-Pete Hamill ,
author of
Drinking Life: A Memo ir
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8°7°-7
2JO-0
hardcover
$22. 00
"I love
Flying 5010:
its intelligence, its anger
and passion , its wisdom. Kriegel 's body is crip–
pled , yet his mind sees far beyond his body and
renders life in beautiful sentences that make this
work a memoir, a book
of
stories and myths, a
fierce embracing of life."
-Andre Dubus,
author of
Dancing After Hours
AVA i lABlE JANUARY 1998
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BEACON
PRESS, BOSTON
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