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My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy

My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy

Hirsch, Edward

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $29.00

ISBN10: 0593802829
ISBN13: 9780593802823
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Jun 3 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
From the award-winning poet, dark comic microbursts of prose deliver a whole childhood, at the hands of an aspiring middle-class Jewish family whose hard-boiled American values and wit were the forge of a poet's coming-of-age.

My grandparents taught me to write my sins on paper and cast them into the water. . . . They didn't expect an entire book, Hirsch says in the prologue to this glorious festival of knife-sharp observations. In microchapters--sometimes only a single scathing sentence long--with titles like Call to Breakfast, Pay Cash, The Sorrow of Manly Sports, and Aristotle on Lawrence Avenue, Eddie's gambling father, Ruby, son of a white metal smelter, schools him and his sister in blackjack; Eddie's mom bangs pots to wake the kids to a breakfast of cold cereal; Uncle Bob, in the collection business, is heard threatening people on the phone; and nobody suffers fools. In this household, Eddie learned to jab with his left and cross with his right, never to kid a kidder, and how to sneak out at night.

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