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Bloomsbury Press
April 2011
On Sale: March 29, 2011
400 pages
ISBN: 1608196852
EAN: 9781608196852
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From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural--at ping-pong.
Even with his improvised bat (the Collins Classic edition of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde) he can chop, flick, half-volley like
a champion. At sex he is not a natural, being shy and
frightened of women, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman,
fellow member of the Akiva Social Club Table Tennis team,
his game improves. And while the Akiva boys teach him
everything he needs to know about ping-pong, his father,
Joel Walzer, teaches him everything there is to know about
"swag." Unabashedly autobiographical, this is an hilarious
and heartbreaking story of one man's coming of age in 1950's
Manchester.
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