Franz Lidz recalls his unusual childhood spent in the care of his four wildly eccentric uncles. Unstrung Heroes will touch the hearts of millions when it hits the big screen this September. The major motion picture from Hollywood Pictures stars Andie MacDowell, John Turturro and Michael Richards (Kramer on TV's Seinfeld), and is directed by Diane Keaton.
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A family dominated by zany, at times seriously off-track brothers is recalled in this bittersweet history of an unusual Jewish household. Lidz, who writes for Sports Illustrated , relates the absurd domestic dramas provoked by his father's four brothers, who abided by no law or convention and practiced strange scavenging and hoarding habits, e.g., of shoelaces. Their antics, however, were lovingly integrated into the Long Island childhood of the author and his sister whose mother was ill with cancer for years. The men became even more important, and problematical, to the author after his mother's death and his preoccupied father's remarriage to a complaining, ungenerous woman. Lidz's funny, rueful memoir reaches beyond his daft uncles, unrelenting punsters and sometimes wise fools, to the grandfather who "set the pattern for eccentricity that his sons later elaborated into rococco."
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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A rollicking memoir, crisply told,
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This review is from: Unstrung Heroes: My Improbable Life with Four Impossible Uncles (Paperback)
Franz Lidz is a natural storyteller. The recollections that make up Unstrung Heroes are sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, but always intelligent, perceptive, surprising, and most importantly, human. Most novels are disguised memoirs; this memoir is a disguised novel.
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Unflinching, devastatingly sad and yet fall-over funny,
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This review is from: Unstrung Heroes: My Improbable Life with Four Impossible Uncles (Paperback)
Unstrung Heroes is one of the most touching and simutaneously disturbing books I've read in quite a while. In an unforgettable series of memoirs, Lidz succeeds in retelling the astonishing events of his life in an affecting and heartfelt manner. Somehow, through all of this, he keeps you rolling on the floor in laughter.
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Expertly executed, endlessly amusing and heartbreaking,
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A marvelously nuanced, subtle, and unillusioned recounting of one boy's life among the strangest of families. This offbeat gem has the makings of a classic.
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