{"product_id":"how-i-married-michele-gary-gildner-9781943491223","title":"How I Married Michele: And Other Journeys, Essays","description":"In these fifteen personal essays, Gary Gildner comes of age at a Catholic school learning Latin, how the girls crossed their legs in algebra, and football in the school's bomb shelter by exchanging punches with his best friend. He goes to Communist Poland to teach American literature and, in medias res, teaches the Warsaw Sparks baseball team how to win. Living in Czechoslovakia when that country is splitting in half, he learns the meaning of \"Where the Dog is Buried\" and fathers a daughter. Gildner writes about his Polish-German family's immigrant story and his friendships with poet Richard Hugo and Raymond Andrews, his college roommate and the author of \u003ci\u003eBaby Sweet's\u003c\/i\u003e and other African American novels. He writes about 9\/11, stealing, meeting a cougar up close, meeting Michele, felling his barn in Idaho's Clearwater Mountains with a crowbar, and boxing with Chuck Davey, a fellow Michigan State Spartan and one-time challenger for the World Welterweight title. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Essays from this collection have appeared in such venues as the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine, The Southern Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew Letters\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gary Gildner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1943491224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781943491223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Gary Gildner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988704362751,"sku":"9781943491223","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2480b0b7-06db-4680-a077-b9d52594ffb8.jpg?v=1683295918","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-i-married-michele-gary-gildner-9781943491223","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}