Lost in Place; Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia
New York: Random House, 1992. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 6 inches by 8.5 inches. [12], 273, [3] pages. Minor endpaper soiling. Describes the author's early years as an ambitious and eccentric young man who stood out from his family and neighborhood, his kung fu lessons under the tutelage of a sadist, and his often misguided mimicry of Zen Buddhist practices. Mark Joseph Salzman (born December 3, 1959 in Greenwich, Connecticut) is an American writer. Salzman is best known for his 1986 memoir Iron & Silk, which describes his experiences living in China as an English teacher in the early 1980s. The book was made into a 1990 film of the same title. Salzman wrote the screenplay and starred as himself in the film. After receiving his 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship,[4] Mark Salzman spent time as a stay-at-home parent.[5] Salzman, along with three other men, was featured in the 2007 documentary Protagonist, directed by his wife, Jessica Yu. Common to his later works is a theme of struggling to reach an ideal but falling short, and the quiet changes within a person who faces the possibility of never achieving their goal. More