{"product_id":"my-childhood-in-pieces-9780593802823","title":"My Childhood in Pieces","description":"By: Edward Hirsch     \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.\u003cbr\u003e    Affectionate, deadpan, and exuberant, steeped in Yiddishkeit and Midwestern practicality, Hirsch’s 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.","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"US - Hardback","offer_id":45808419733731,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9780593802823","price":186.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780593802823_f5738bb0-b363-421b-8470-de7a16af8dea.jpg?v=1739553914","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/my-childhood-in-pieces-9780593802823","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}