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The Years of Smashing Bricks: An Anecdotal Memoir
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The Years of Smashing Bricks: An Anecdotal Memoir Paperback - 2007

by Richard Katrovas

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The Years of Smashing Bricks is about sex, drugs and karate in Coronado and San Diego, California, in the early '70s. It's a memoir in the form of interlocking stories, and reaches back into Richard Katrovas's odd childhood on the highways of America with criminal parents, and into his teens in Sasebo, Japan, with adoptive parents on a U.S. Navy base. Having earned a second-degree black belt in Sho-bu-kan Okinawa-te in the late '60s, at the height of the mystique of the black belt, Katrovas gave private karate lessons through his twenties in Coronado and San Diego; at the same time, he lived a bohemian life of sex, drugs, art and ideas. At the heart of this utterly unique, lyrical memoir is a young man's coming to terms with the cultural fictions of masculinity, and with his divided affections for a dying birth mother with whom he has lost contact, and an adoptive mother who is at once noble, deeply decent, and emotionally abusive.

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  • Title The Years of Smashing Bricks: An Anecdotal Memoir
  • Author Richard Katrovas
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 136
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Carnegie-Mellon University Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date February 16, 2007
  • ISBN 9780887484681 / 0887484689
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 5.5 x 0.4 in (23.50 x 13.97 x 1.02 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 200622932
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

The recipient of numerous grants and awards, RICHARD KATROVAS is the founding academic director of the Prague Summer Program, and is the author of six collections of poetry, a short story collection, a novel, and two memoirs. Katrovas taught for twenty years at the University of New Orleans before moving to Western Michigan University. Katrovas lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan; New Orleans, Louisiana, and Prague, Czech Republic.

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