{"product_id":"9780374525835","title":"Family Man","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFamily Man\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Calvin Trillin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCalvin Trillin begins his wise and charming ruminations on family by stating the sum total of his child-rearing advice: \"Try to get one that doesn't spit up. Otherwise, you're on your own.\" Suspicious of any child-rearing theories beyond \"Your children are either the center of your life or they're not,\" Trillin has clearly reveled in the role of family man. Acknowledging the special perils to the privacy of people living with a writer who occasionally remarks, \"I hope you're not under the impression that what you just said was off the record,\" Trillin deals with the subject of family in a way that is loving, honest, and wildly funny in \u003ci\u003eFamily Man.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Trillin's] timing and delivery are perfect. He doesn't ring an off-key note.” —\u003ci\u003eChristopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“* A short celebration of the wonderfulness of family life . . . genial, generous and unstoppably wry.” —\u003ci\u003eAdam Woog, The Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What you take away from \u003ci\u003eFamily Man\u003c\/i\u003e are the depable joys of Trillin's prose-those clean, wry, perfectly constructed sentences -and his bedrock sense of what parenthood is all about.” —\u003ci\u003eDwight Garner, Newsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374525835\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40593359241422,"sku":"9780374525835","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_f5f8320b-353c-40c5-8886-febe7c464d61.jpg?v=1637787051","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374525835","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}