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Autore: |
Lazar David <1957->
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Titolo: |
The body of Brooklyn [[electronic resource] /] / David Lazar
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Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (181 p.) |
Disciplina: | 974.7/23004924/0092 |
974.723044092 | |
Soggetto topico: | Jewish children - New York (State) - New York |
Jews - New York (State) - New York | |
Soggetto geografico: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Biography |
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... |
Titolo autorizzato: | The body of Brooklyn ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-58729-435-4 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910777589803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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