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The Most Fun Thing Dispatches from a Skateboard Life

Hardcover • 2021 • English

The Most Fun Thing Dispatches from a Skateboard Life

By Kyle Beachy

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About the book

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR - Southwest Review - Electric Literature Perfect for fans of Barbarian Days, this memoir in essays follows one man's decade-long quest to uncover the hidden meaning of skateboarding, and explores how this search led unexpectedly to insights on marriage, love, loss, American invention, and growing old. In January 2012, creative writing professor and novelist Kyle Beachy published one of his first essays on skate culture, an exploration of how Nike's corporate ...Show more

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ISBN

9781538754115

Publisher

Grand Central Publishing

Published year

2021

Language

English

Original title

The Most Fun Thing Dispatches from a Skateboard Life

Format

Hardcover

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