About this title: A memoir from writer Mark Salzman about growing up in suburban Connecticut, focusing particularly on his love of Zen and the martial arts, his experiences with a crazed sensei, his infatuation with the cello, and his years at Yale.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1996-05-28
ISBN-13:9780679767787ISBN:0679767789
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679439455ISBN:0679439455
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1996-05-28
ISBN-13:9780679767787ISBN:0679767789
Description: Good. Softcover with average edgewear. Reading crease to cover. Faint stain with rippling to top of 1st 10 pages, does not effect text. Text clean and bright. read more
Description: Good. 0679767789 22309 PB: spine smooth, text clean, cover has light shelf wear-allow up to 21 business days for standard USPS media m a i l. wt1lbpf. read more
"An incredibly entertaining coming-of-age memoir with quite a few insightful tidbits. My only disappointment was wanting to read more about "growing up absurd in suburbia" (the book's subtitle) -- in other words, how others reacted to his weirdness and how he dealt with it -- as opposed to just the "growing up" story itself. Overall, a very enjoyable quick read that even gave me a little bit to chew on afterward."
"Good nonfiction. I grew up about the same time as the author, but my experiences were very different than his. Still fun to get another perspective and he is humorous."
"Alternately hilarious and touching, Salzman recreates what it was to be a short adolescent seeking an edge during the kung fu craze. The bits about his loving family are bonuses."
"If you came of age in the 70s (or are a fan of that lost decade), LOST IN PLACE should prove an amusing account of coming-of-age at a time when it seemed most every teenager was high or trying to get high. Only Mark Salzman's not your ordinary kid growing up in Connecticut. He's fascinated with kung fu, then cello, then Chinese culture, and so forth. His father is hilariously deadpan and filled with resignation before life's slings and arrows (of which his son provides many).
In addition to a great portrait of the father, Salzman gives us the sadistic kung fu master Sensei O'Keefe, a hard-drinking, pot-smoking killing machine who's expected to be an honorable role model. Sick... but funny. The book gets a bit spotty as it goes all the way from Mark's 12th year to his college years at Yale (cue song: "But I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For..."), and it includes things like Mark's first job, first girlfriend, first car accident, and first high. Overall? An amusing and satisfying read. Salzman's voice, style, and tone are reminiscent of Tom Perrotta's (see BAD HAIRCUT and JOE COLLEGE, where the protagonist also goes to Yale).
By the end, you'll feel like Salzman's a pal of yours. Such are the wiles of memoirs when the narrator is not only sympathetic, but commendable."
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