Bibliograph

Fish out of water, a search for the meaning of life : a memoir, Eric Metaxas

Type

Label

Fish out of water, a search for the meaning of life : a memoir, Eric Metaxas

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

mapsplatesgenealogical tablesillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fish out of water

Oclc number

1235814231

Responsibility statement

Eric Metaxas

Sub title

a search for the meaning of life : a memoir

Summary

A five-time New York Times best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio host describes growing up as the Queens-born son of Greek and German immigrants who attended Yale while feeling like an outsider

Table Of Contents

Author's note -- Introduction -- Omphalos -- I am born, et cetera -- School -- Our trip to Germany: Summer 1971 -- Transfiguration: 1971-1972 -- Moving to America: 1972 -- Assumption Church and trip to Greece -- My American idyll -- Broadview -- The bicentennial -- "Because he's your father": Fall 1976 -- Falling into the future: Fall 1977 -- "You have gell-friend?": Spring 1978 -- Senior year: 1979 -- Graduation: 1980 -- Trinity College: Fall 1980 -- "Summer of destiny" -- National socialism in Danbury -- The meaning of meaning: Fall 1982 -- The last bladderball: Junior year 1982 -- The game -- Bohemian threnody: Summer 1983 -- "I ang Leo..." -- Senior year: 1983-1984 -- Graduation from Yale: 1984 -- Grand tour, Einzer Schtuck -- The grand tour, Zweiter Schtuck -- Alone! -- Home, Eric -- Onion skin and nothingness -- Boston: Spring 1985 -- The opera house -- Backward to Greece: Summer 1987 -- Lost at home -- The golden fish -- As I lay dying -- I am born again, et cetera -- Epilogue

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Search for the meaning of life, memoir

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