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Describes the author's early years as an ambitious and eccentric young man who stood out from his family and neighborhood, his king fu lessons under the tutelage of a sadist, and his often misguided mimicry of Zen Buddhist practices.
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From the author of Iron & Silk comes a charming and frequently uproarious account of an American adolescence in the age of Bruce Lee, Ozzy Osborne, and Kung Fu. As Salzman recalls coming of age with one foot in Connecticut and the other in China (he wanted to become a wandering Zen monk), he tells the story of a teenager trying to attain enlightenment before he's learned to drive.
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