The Body of Brooklyn (Sightline Books)
by David Lazar | Biographies & Memoirs | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780877458456 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 9780877458456 Global Overview for this book
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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 1960s and 70s. 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. Moreover, this film-flavored confection is so infused with Lazar's fascinating turn of mind and memory, forever digressing and reflecting upon his digressions, without ever losing the thread of his story, that his essays will give the reader the distinctive pleasure of witnessing an extraordinary mental performance.