{"product_id":"lessons-for-dylan-on-life-love-the-movies-and-me-9781586482350","title":"Lessons for Dylan: On Life, Love, the Movies, and Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joel Siegel\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Entertainment \u0026amp; Performing Arts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the age of fifty-seven, movie critic Joel Siegel both became a father for the first time and learned that he had cancer. In \u003ci\u003eLessons for Dylan\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.","brand":"PublicAffairs","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45355933925527,"sku":"9781586482350","price":1877.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781586482350.webp?v=1767309185","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/lessons-for-dylan-on-life-love-the-movies-and-me-9781586482350","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}