Gut Check: Confronting Love, Work, & Manhood (SIGNED FIRST EDITION)

Dallas, Texas: Spence Publishing Company, 2008. Minor edge and corner wear to the dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean SIGNED FIRST EDITION! Inscribed by the author on the ffep! Black boards with gilt lettering on the spine. 191 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! "Only a few years into a career marked by dazzling early success, Tarek Saab's life took a dramatic turn with his selection for Donald Trump's reality show, The Apprentice. Viewers noticed something unusual about Tarek. Throughout the chaos and pressure, including several boardroom showdowns with Trump, Tarek displayed tremendous character and resilience. In this book, he shares his hard-won insights into love, work, and manhood and their source in a faith that is ever old, ever new. The biggest problem by far facing men in their twenties is the crisis of manhood. Offering a completely new take on the so-called quarter-life crisis, Tarek describes his reluctant confrontation with career, relationships, and spiritual disillusionment and reveals the surprising truths he learned about what it means to be a man. A distinctly modern-day Confessions, Gut Check is the wry and candid self-examination of a man whose life, despite its extraordinary twists, is full of lessons for ordinary young men. Tarek's captivating tale reveals a young man with many talents and temptations whose saving grace is a relentless pursuit of truth and the daring to be counter-cultural. Gritty, comic, utterly believable, Gut Check is not the usual Christian fairy tale. Gut Check is a manual for manhood lived the hard way. It is a book for men who never read and for men who think they have read it all. If you think you know what you really want, are you ready for a gut check?......." (SIGNED FIRST EDITION). . Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Black Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.