Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia... by Mark Salzman

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From the author of Iron & Silk comes a charming and frequently uproarious account of an American adolescence in the age of Bruce Lee, Ozzy Osborne, and Kung Fu. As Salzman recalls coming of age with one foot in Connecticut and the other in China (he wanted to become a wandering Zen monk),... read more

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When I was thirteen years old I saw my first kung fu movie, and before it ended I decided that the life of a wandering Zen monk was the life for me.

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Mark Salzman (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 0679439455
Page Count: 273

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Dewey: 813.54

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Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia (Vintage) (1995) (edit title/settings)

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