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May, 5th 2010: The paperback edition has been released!
After six printings and two editions, Gut Check has become a modern-day manifesto for struggling Christians throughout the world. The book has been hailed as "masterful" by Catholic Men's Quarterly, "a classic" by The Catholic League, and "a modern-day classic" by the National Catholic Register. Gut Check has even penetrated the secular press with labels such as "inspirational," "relatable", and "teeming with emotion and humor."
Released in March 2008 under its original title "Gut Check: Confronting Love, Work, and Manhood In Your Twenties", Saab's book was embraced immediately by a legion of devoted fans from his television appearance on The Apprentice. A tireless speaking schedule throughout the United States and Canada, along with endless radio and television appearances, exposed a large audience to Tarek's countercultural message. His appeal as a modern day everyman, and the book's appeal as an intimately relatable journey, captivated audiences well beyond the twenty-something demographic.
Ransom Books purchased the rights to the second edition of Gut Check in December of 2008, and the publishers soon truncated the subtitle to the more age-neutral Confronting Love, Work, & Manhood. Readers of both sexes and of all ages commented that the book is "not just for men in their twenties!" The second edition also corrected a few minor typos.
Description
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 soon noticed something unusual about Tarek. Throughout the chaos and pressure—including several boardroom showdowns with Trump—Tarek displayed unusual moral character. In Gut Check, 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 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 men and women. 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?
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