{"product_id":"dirtbag-massachusetts-a-confessional","title":"Dirtbag, Massachusetts : A Confessional","description":"\u003cp\u003eIsaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives - or so he was told.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humour, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self. Fitzgerald's memoir-in-essays begins with a childhood that moves at breakneck speed from safety to violence, recounting an extraordinary pilgrimage through trauma to self-understanding and, ultimately, acceptance. From growing up in a Boston homeless shelter to bartending in San Francisco, from smuggling medical supplies into Burma to his lifelong struggle to make peace with his body, Fitzgerald strives to take control of his own story: one that aims to put aside anger, isolation and entitlement to embrace the idea that one can be generous to oneself by being generous to others.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGritty and clear-eyed, loud-hearted and beautiful, Dirtbag, Massachusetts is a rollicking book that might also be a lifeline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover \u003cbr\u003e Published: UK, 2022\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003ePages: 256\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English \u003cbr\u003e ISBN 13: 9781526659538\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 10: 1526659530\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Isaac Fitzgerald","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43765501755658,"sku":"","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9781526659538.jpg?v=1664877395","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/dirtbag-massachusetts-a-confessional","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}