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The oldest child in a middle-class household in Ridgefield, Connecticut, the son of a piano teacher and a social worker, the author was, from the age of six, an eccentric with enormous aspirations - none of them ever fulfilled, of course - who stood out not only from his more conventional parents and brother and sister but from everyone else in the neighborhood. In the tradition of Russell Baker's Growing Up and Spalding Gray's Sex and Death to the Age 14, Mark Salzman recalls his tortured years so fondly, so self-deprecatingly and so humorously that readers will devour this delightful look backward with smiles on their faces.
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Michele Martinez
reviewed Lost in place on November 05, 2013
Lost in place
Mixed bag, here. Mark Salzman tells the story of his early teen to college age years. He was a most peculiar character. And his friends and teachers were so unique, so sublimely weird--his Kung Fu master, his best friend who used to beat him up, and especially his dad--they made a story themselves. His dad is a hoot.
I get the impression that with the notable exception of a Chinese Studies professor, Mr. Salzman's relationships with women were uniquely flat. His mother was a concert celloist yet we know nothing about her. She's just there, like a plate on which you pile a slab of roast beef and onions. Who cares about the plate? It's just a flat thing to pile yourself onto.
I'm not being a sexist pig about this. His two girl friends are also, just "his girlfriends". He spends hours and hours hanging out with them and yet we don't know anything about them. I just didn't get it.
So...I guess you get the idea. If you're a guy who grew up in the era, you might enjoy it a lot.
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