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The body of Brooklyn / David Lazar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lazar, David, 1957-
- Series:
- Sightline books.
- Sightline books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish children--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Jewish children.
- Jews--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Jews.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Biography.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
- Lazar, David, 1957---Childhood and youth--Anecdotes.
- Lazar, David.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (181 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Body of Brooklyn David Lazar, an acclaimed essayist and prose stylist, offers a vividly detailed, hilarious, and touching recollection of his Brooklyn upbringing in the 1960's and 70's. His immigrant Jewish heritage and his bodily history--from the travails of childhood obesity to the sexual triumphs of post-adolescent leanness--form the core of this series of essays, all of which will win the interest and admiration of readers. More-over, this film-flavored confection is so infused with Lazar's fascinating turn of mind and memory, forever digressing and reflecting upon his digressions...
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; White Car; Melon Man; Grottoes: Memories of Christaphobia; The Body of Brooklyn; Distant Voice; Further Father: Remembering John Waterman; Movies Are a Mother to Me; On Three Fraternal Aphorisms; Last Exit to Brooklyn; Season of Love; Rear Windows; My Little Heroes; Family Snaps; Some Images: Toward a Photographic Mishnah
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-58729-435-4
- OCLC:
- 56109455
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