{"product_id":"the-worlds-largest-man-a-memoir-9780062351500","title":"The World's Largest Man: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Thurber Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"How in the hell is this so funny one second and so heartbreaking the next? Harrison Scott Key examines the topic of fatherhood and sonhood with fresh, clear eyes. . . except wait, they're not clear because they filled with tears, of laughter one second and sadness the next. I dare you to find a better way to spend the seconds and minutes and hours of your day than with this book.\" -- Tom Franklin, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe riotous, tender story of a bookish Mississippi boy and his flawed, Bunyanesque father, told with the comic verve of David Sedaris and the deft satire of Mark Twain or Roy Blount, Jr.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarrison Scott Key was born in Memphis, but he grew up in Mississippi, among pious, Bible-reading women and men who either shot things or got women pregnant. At the center of his world was his larger-than-life father--a hunter, a fighter, a football coach, \"a man better suited to living in a remote frontier wilderness of the nineteenth century than contemporary America, with all its progressive ideas, and paved roads, and lack of armed duels. He was a great man, and he taught me many things: How to fight, how to work, how to cheat, how to pray to Jesus about it, how to kill things with guns and knives and, if necessary, with hammers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarrison, with his love of books and excessive interest in hugging, couldn't have been less like Pop, and when it became clear that he was not able to kill anything very well or otherwise make his father happy, he resolved to become everything his father was not: an actor, a Presbyterian, and a doctor of philosophy. But when it was time to settle down and start a family of his own, Harrison started to view his father in a new light, and realized--for better and for worse--how much of his old man he'd absorbed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSly, heartfelt, and tirelessly hilarious, \u003cem\u003eThe World's Largest Man\u003c\/em\u003e is an unforgettable memoir--the story of a boy's struggle to reconcile himself with an impossibly outsized role model, a grown man's reckoning with the father it took him a lifetime to understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKey, Harrison Scott:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHARRISON SCOTT KEY\u003c\/strong\u003e's writing has been featured in \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Travel Writing\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOutside\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSalon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Chronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMcSweeney's Internet Tendency\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSouthern Living\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eReader's Digest\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eImage\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCreative Nonfiction\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Mockingbird\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Green County Independent\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe American Conservative\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBrevity\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOxford American\u003c\/em\u003e, where he is also a contributing editor. He teaches at SCAD in Savannah, Georgia, where he lives with his wife and three children. Harper published his first memoir, \u003cem\u003eThe World's Largest Man\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50719058100498,"sku":"9780062351500","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dbcacb8b-cbed-4e39-8f1d-42a69b1c2f1b.jpg?v=1734656964","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-worlds-largest-man-a-memoir-9780062351500","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}