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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\u2019s coming-of-age.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cMy grandparents taught me to write my sins on paper and cast them into the water. . . . They didn\u2019t expect an entire book,\u201d Hirsch says in the \u201cprologue\u201d to this glorious festival of knife-sharp observations. In microchapters\u2014sometimes only a single scathing sentence long\u2014with titles like \u201cCall to Breakfast,\u201d \u201cPay Cash,\u201d \u201cThe Sorrow of Manly Sports,\u201d and \u201cAristotle on Lawrence Avenue,\u201d Eddie\u2019s gambling father, Ruby, son of a white metal smelter, schools him and his sister in blackjack; Eddie\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Affectionate, deadpan, and exuberant, steeped in Yiddishkeit and Midwestern practicality, Hirsch\u2019s laugh-and-cry performance animates a heartbreaking odyssey, from the cradle to the day he leaves home, armed with sorrow and a huge store of poetic wit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Book in Dustjacket, first edition, signed by the author. 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\u2019s coming-of-age. \u201cMy grandparents taught me to write my sins on paper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[104,369],"product_tag":[725,1005,1004],"class_list":["post-80321","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-history-biographies","product_cat-signed-by-author","product_tag-author-signed","product_tag-autobiography","product_tag-ed-hirsch","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/80321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=80321"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=80321"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=80321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}