The body of Brooklyn - Lazar, David (University of Iowa Press, 2003)
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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
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