LEADER 02617nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910777589803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-58729-435-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000447524 035 $a(EBL)837082 035 $a(OCoLC)56109455 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000113583 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11131759 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113583 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10101772 035 $a(PQKB)10193263 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12557 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL837082 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354596 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC837082 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000447524 100 $a20021003d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe body of Brooklyn$b[electronic resource] /$fDavid Lazar 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (181 p.) 225 1 $aSightline books 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87745-845-6 327 $aAcknowledgments; 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 330 $aIn The Body of Brooklyn David Lazar, an acclaimed essayist and prose stylist, offers a vividly detailed, hilarious, and touching recollection of his Brooklyn upbringing in the 1960's and 70's. His immigrant Jewish heritage and his bodily history--from the travails of childhood obesity to the sexual triumphs of post-adolescent leanness--form the core of this series of essays, all of which will win the interest and admiration of readers. More-over, this film-flavored confection is so infused with Lazar's fascinating turn of mind and memory, forever digressing and reflecting upon his digressions... 410 0$aSightline books. 606 $aJewish children$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography 606 $aJews$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography 607 $aBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)$vBiography 615 0$aJewish children 615 0$aJews 676 $a974.7/23004924/0092 676 $a974.723044092 700 $aLazar$b David$f1957-$01488831 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777589803321 996 $aThe body of Brooklyn$93725038 997 $aUNINA