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As a boy, Stephen J. Dubner's hero was Franco Harris, the famed and mysterious running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers. When Dubner's father died, he became obsessed--he dreamed of his hero every night; he signed his school papers "Franco Dubner." Though they never met, it was Franco Harris who shepherded Dubner through a fatherless boyhood. Years later, Dubner journeys to meet his hero, certain that Harris will embrace him. And he is . . . well, wrong. Told with the grit of a journalist and the grace of a memoirist, "Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper" is a breathtaking, heartbreaking, and often humorous story of astonishing developments. It is also a sparkling meditation on the nature of hero worship--which, like religion and love, tells us as much about ourselves as about the object of our desire.

Book details

• Full title: Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper
• Author: Stephen J Dubner
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 261
• EAN: 9780061132988
• ISBN: 0061132985
• ID: 11300843
• Publisher: Perennial
• Weight: 218 g
• Dimensions: 202 × 137 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: July 2007

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