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180 pages, 22 photos, 2003 $26.00 cloth, 0-87745-845-6, 978-0-87745-845-6 $10.00 or $24.95 e-book, 1-58729-435-4, 978-1-58729-435-8 About our e-books “Lazar's prose renews in our time a kind of writing that is a treasure of literature wherever it is found: what is often called the personal essay. He is intent upon making private, particular experience enter into the language we share in a way that will convey the startling perspectives of memory and insight, and it is obvious that he means to produce writing that will be heard and remembered in itself. His talent for so demanding an ambition, and his devotion to it, is clear. And he's funny!” —W. S. Merwin “I've read these essays with much delight. As a fellow-essayist, David Lazar has my intense envy for his deceptively calm, wonderfully amused style. The writing is silky and full of little surprises. These essays form a book which should be read for its pleasures as well as studied diligently by all would-be writers.”—Barbara Ehrenreich 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. Moreover, this film-flavored confection is so infused with Lazar's fascinating turn of mind and memory, forever digressing and reflecting upon his digressions, without ever losing the thread of his story, that his essays will give the reader the distinctive pleasure of witnessing an extraordinary mental performance. David Lazar is associate professor of creative writing at Ohio University, where he established the nonfiction writing program in 1990. He has edited Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher and Michael Powell: Interviews and his work has been published in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies. He was associate editor of the Ohio Review from 1990 to 1997 and is senior editor of Hotel Amerika.
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