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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 tr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lazar, David, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2003.
Series:Sightline books.
Subjects:
Lazar, David, > 1957- > Childhood and youth > Anecdotes.
Lazar, David, > 1957-
Jewish children > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Jews > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Enfants juifs > New York (État) > New York > Biographies.
Juifs > New York (État) > New York > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > State & Local.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Childhood and youth of a person
Jewish children
Jews
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Biography.
New York (State) > New York
New York (State) > New York > Brooklyn
Anecdotes
Biographies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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