First Edition. City Lights Books, 1983. In these memoirs, Codrescu recalls his life with irrepressible and uncensored candor. From the bittersweet delights of a fantastic childhood in the ruins of a Transylvanian castle to the horror and ecstasy of re-inventing himself as an American in a new language, this Proustian romp brims with erotic delight and language at high heat. In an age rife with "memoirs" set on grinding dull axes, Codrescu's razor-sharp language is both pitiless and unsparing of his experience.
