Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia
The author ofIron and Silklooks back to his tortured youth with self-deprecating humor and wistful fondness.  The oldest child in a middle-class household in  Connecticut, the son of a piano teacher and a social worker, by age six the author was an eccentric with enormous aspirations - none of them ever fulfilled  - who stood out not only from his more conventional parents and brother and sister but from everyone else in his suburban neighborhood.  A hilarious memoir in the tradition ofRussell Baker'sGrowing Up.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.