I have a rather large library of books concerning the Marx Brothers and consider myself to be as well versed as anyone with regard to the lives of the principle three actors, Harpo, Chico, and Groucho. I originally purchased "SoHS" with hope of further insight to the lives of Gummo and Zeppo. I got that, but only a minor spoonful of what I really wanted to know. Instead I got a healthy serving of how Harpo and his beloved Susan lived, worked, and raised their four kids. You'd think that was enough, but it isn't. Harpo's oldest son has plowed forth in life, full of naievity that required a sore education in the school of hard knocks. Gifted and intelligent, Bill Marx narrates his education as a Marx child, a celebrity's son, a man forced into growing up with some burdens similar to our own, and some unique. I found amazing parallels to my own life in his writing until I realized, they aren't so amazing! On the other hand, through a remarkable series of coincidences, Bill learns about his ancestry, who his birth mother was, why he was put up for adoption, and why he is still loved by his late parents; all of them.
There is a stream of consciousness Marx Brothers movie included in the end of the text, and I could have done without it, but for whatever reason it is there. Some of Bill's stories are so funny that I literally burst out laughing and woke up my wife in doing so. The goldfish in the clinic being one.
I the end, I have to say, I wish I knew Billy Marx more intimately as a friend, a buddy, a pal. I still have questions about Uncles Gummo and Zeppo, but I know Bill very well, just as he knows me. And we haven't yet met in person.
If you are a confirmed Marxist, and frankly, you won't be reading this unless you are, this is a necessary component of your library. Harpo would give it five honks, I gave it four. You should honk it yourself.
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