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Freak : a semi-demi-quasi-pseudo autobiography / John Leguizamo with David Bar Katz.
Van Pelt Library PS3562.E424 Z47 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leguizamo, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leguizamo, John.
- Dramatists, American--20th century--Biography.
- Dramatists, American.
- Comedians--United States--Biography.
- Comedians.
- United States.
- Hispanic Americans--Biography.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 125 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, 1997.
- Summary:
- Freak: a Semi-Demi-Quasi-Pseudo Autobiography is John Leguizamo's hilarious coming-of-age story. Set in various neighborhoods of Queens, New York, in the eras of disco and break-dancing, Freak recounts the turmoil and eccentricities within a Latino family struggling to make it. A domineering father, frustrated by his rocky quest for the American dream; a mother who finds feminism and the club scene when she tires of Pop's tight control; a pudgy, eager-to-please, easily manipulated younger brother; and John - who doesn't spare himself in telling the gory details of his teen years. Freak is the book adaptation of Leguizamo's comical and critically acclaimed one-man Broadway show. But Freak, the book, contains narrative that had to be cut from the show because of time restraints.
- ISBN:
- 1573220922
- OCLC:
- 37293238
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