High Holiday Porn : A Memoir by Eytan Bayme (2015, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
ISBN-101250067227
ISBN-139781250067227
eBay Product ID (ePID)208654544
Product Key Features
Book TitleHigh Holiday Porn : a Memoir
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicHuman Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Life Stages / Adolescence, Jewish Studies
GenreFamily & Relationships, Social Science
AuthorEytan Bayme
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight13.8 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2015-017626
ReviewsMost people have compulsions. Eytan Bayme discovers his at age six. And, given the title of his book, you might be able to guess their nature. If you ever thought you were an excessive self-soother, this laugh-out-loud memoir will definitely make you feel better about yourself. If you ever thought you were a precocious one, it may burst your bubble., A sad, funny, painfully honest peek behind the curtain and into the hormonal maelstrom of male adolescence., Have you heard? Mark Twain is back among us, reincarnated as a Jewish kid from the Bronx named Eytan Bayme. Or so it must be. In High Holiday Porn , Bayme captures boyhood in a way not quite seen since The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -in other words, in all its mischievous, mysterious glory. Very few books make me laugh out loud, but High Holiday Porn did so on page after page. And when I wasn't laughing, I was nodding in understanding. The formative male is an enigma not easily cracked; Bayme nails it with laser insight-and an abundance of hilarity and heart., "A sad, funny, painfully honest peek behind the curtain and into the hormonal maelstrom of male adolescence."-Jonathan Tropper, author of One Last Thing Before I Go and This is Where I Leave You "Bayme captures boyhood in a way not quite seen since The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -in other words, in all its mischievous, mysterious glory. Very few books make me laugh out loud, but High Holiday Porn did so on page after page. And when I wasn't laughing, I was nodding in understanding. The formative male is an enigma not easily cracked... and an abundance of hilarity and heart."-John Grogan, author of Marley & Me and The Longest Trip Home, High Holiday Porn is a brutally honest and genuinely funny confession of an adolescence even more awkward than yours., "Have you heard? Mark Twain is back among us, reincarnated as a Jewish kid from the Bronx named Eytan Bayme. Or so it must be. In High Holiday Porn , Bayme captures boyhood in a way not quite seen since The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -in other words, in all its mischievous, mysterious glory. Very few books make me laugh out loud, but High Holiday Porn did so on page after page. And when I wasn't laughing, I was nodding in understanding. The formative male is an enigma not easily cracked; Bayme nails it with laser insight-and an abundance of hilarity and heart." --John Grogan, author of "Marley & Me" and "The Longest Trip" "A sad, funny, painfully honest peek behind the curtain and into the hormonal maelstrom of male adolescence." --Jonathan Tropper, author of "One Last Thing Before I Go" and "This is Where I Leave You" "Most people have compulsions. Eytan Bayme discovers his at age six. And, given the title of his book, you might be able to guess their nature. If you ever thought you were an excessive self-soother, this laugh-out-loud memoir will definitely make you feel better about yourself. If you ever thought you were a precocious one, it may burst your bubble." --Mishna Wolff, author of "I'm Down" " High Holiday Porn is a brutally honest and genuinely funny confession of an adolescence even more awkward than yours." -- Kimberly Rae Miller, author of COMING CLEAN "The combination of comedic Jewish coming-of-age story and masturbation can't help but conjure up images of Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint." -- Kirkus Reviews
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal306.70835/1
SynopsisA hilarious coming of age memoir set in the '80s and '90s about a modern orthrodox boy from the Bronx who uses masturbation, porn, and impropriety to help him grow into an awkwardly lovable teen., Eytan Bayme went to Jewish day school and Jewish camp. He lived across the street from a synagogue in the Bronx, which he attended weekly, and ate strictly kosher food for most of his childhood. Yet even at the age of six, he wanted to know what the deal was with those Pizza Huts and Burger Kings that he wasn't allowed into "God wouldn't put them on earth if He didn't mean for us to try them," he thought. Wasn't that obvious? Also, why can't he stop thinking about his female classmates in bed, late at night, with his little brother not five feet away; and how come the starting line-up for the 1986 Mets keep creeping into those fantasies? Religious life is difficult enough without the urges of a typical adolescent boy, yet Eytan's urges develop well before his teens, and they just keep on developing and developing. High Holiday Porn is a heartwarming and hilarious story about learning to become an adult. It chronicles how an anxious boy finally stops masturbating in public, gets the girl, grows up, and begrudgingly makes peace with the unfairness of life and love. It's a funny, fantasy-laden, usually embarrassing, sometimes raunchy and always outrageous look at coming of age that will resonate with anyone who ever felt awkward growing up.
LC Classification NumberHQ775.B38 2015
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A Great & Amusing Read.
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