Do-Over!

In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments

By Robin Hemley (Hardcover Book, 2009)

Robin Hemley's childhood made a wedgie of his memory, leaving him sore and embarrassed for over forty years. He was the most pitiful kindergartner, the least spirited summer camper, and dateless for prom. In fact, there's nary an event from his youth that couldn't use improvement. If only he could do them all over a few decades later, with an adult's wisdom, perspective, and giant-like height...

In the spirit of cult film classics like Billy Madison and Wet Hot American Summer, in DO-OVER! Hemley reencounters paper mache, revisits his childhood home, and finally attends the prom--bringing readers the thrill of recapturing a misspent youth and discovering what's most important: simple pleasures, second chances, and the forgotten joys of recess.

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- Format: Hardcover Book
- Price: $23.99 US/$26.99 CAN
- ISBN-13: 9780316020602
- On Sale Date: 05/11/2009
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Robin Hemley is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on DO-OVER!. He has published seven books, and his stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and many literary magazines and anthologies. Robin received his MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop; he currently directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City, IA.

"Robin Hemley may not be able to play Greensleeves on the recorder, but he does know how to write a highly entertaining book."
(author of The Year of Living Biblically).