The body of Brooklyn [[electronic resource] /] / David Lazar

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777589803321
• Autore: Lazar David <1957->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2003
• ISBN: 1-58729-435-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (181 p.)
• Collana: Sightline books
• Disciplina: 974.7/23004924/0092; 974.723044092
• Soggetti: Jewish children - New York (State) - New York; Jews - New York (State) - New York; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Biography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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...