When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir

Sad Sayrafiezadeh

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Penguin Putnam Inc, 2010

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The revolution is not only inevitable, it is imminent. It is not only imminent, it is quite imminent. And when the time comes, my father will lead it. With a profound gift for capturing the absurd in life, and a deadpan wisdom that comes from surviving a surreal childhood in the Socialist Workers Party, Sa d Sayrafiezadeh has crafted an unsentimental, funny, heartbreaking memoir. Sa d's Iranian-born father and American Jewish mother had one thing in common: their unshakable conviction that the workers' revolution was coming. Separated since their son was nine months old, they each pursued a dream of the perfect socialist society. Pinballing with his mother between makeshift Pittsburgh apartments, falling asleep at party meetings, longing for the luxuries he's taught to despise, Said waits for the revolution that never, ever arrives. Soon, his mother assures him, while his long-absent father quixotically runs as a socialist candidate for president in an Iran about to fall under the ayatollahs. Then comes the hostage crisis. The uproar that follows is the first time Sa d hears the word Iran in school. There he is suddenly forced to confront the combustible stew of his identity: as an American, an Iranian, a Jew, a socialist. and a middle-school kid who loves football and video games. Poised perfectly between tragedy and farce, here is a story by a brilliant young writer struggling to break away from the powerful mythologies of his upbringing and create a life--and a voice--of his own. Sa d Sayrafiezadeh's memoir is unforgettable. From the Hardcover edition.…

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Titre
When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir
Auteur
Sad Sayrafiezadeh
Éditeur
Penguin Putnam Inc
Année de publication
2010
État de l'article
Good
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Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0385340699
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780385340694

World of Books (was SecondSale)

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