Lessons for Dylan: On Life, Love, the Movies, and Me (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781586482350)

At the age of fifty-seven, movie critic Joel Siegel both became a father for the first time and learned that he had cancer. In Lessons for Dylan, Siegel shares all the things he wants his son to know--in case he's not around to tell him. It's a story about a life well-lived and about living life well. It's chock-full of earnest advice, hilarious anecdotes, a Yiddish lexicon, and recollections of everyone from Brad Pitt to the Beatles. Siegel lays out the History of the Jewish People in Four Jokes; offers Dylan manly advice on sex ("ask your mother"), culinary arts, the movies; and of course, offers a few lectures ("Be anything you want to be, but, please God, please don't want to be an actor"). Along the way, Joel teaches Dylan, and readers, a little something about growing up at any age.

At times heart-wrenching, at times laugh-out-loud funny, Joel Siegel has crafted an indelible and enduring love letter to his son, and a literary gift to us all.

Author: Joel Siegel
ISBN-10: 1586482351
ISBN-13: 9781586482350
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2004
Pages: 382
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.57w x 0.94d