
A coming of age story of a boy growing up within a stormy marriage, this book follows the author's search for self-definition through domestic scenarios and the inner reaches of his psyche. It tells of a tough and overbearing father and a loving mother, and the son at the centre...

Planted between Ted and a normal boyhood was Ben Solotaroff, as hard a father to placate, defy, and finally accept as can be found in the annals of the American memoir. Tough, bullying, seductive, Ben Solotaroff was a self-made man--almost all ego and almost no conscience--who...