Haunting Echoes of the Past!
OR (The Memoir of a 100 Year Old Rotten Kid)
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"Not many days later, I was subjected to further indignities by being undressed before an assembled group. This was evident from the volume of deafening noise and occasional ear piercing laughter. And although I vehemently protested, adding my cries to the general din, it had little effect. Totally helpless, at the mercy of others, including my parents, I was ritually mutilated, "circumcised, "while those present exuberantly discussed this cruel, sadistic deed. The model, unfortunately, had already done the same barbarous butchery upon the foreskins of any number of innocent infants that day. Each execution had been celebrated with the expected shot or two of slivovitz, a strong plum brandy. It resulted in a not too steady a hand when he wielded his knife upon that which is still most precious to me." The above passage is from THE MEMOIR OF A 100 YEAR OLD ROTTEN KID and is unconventional like the author himself. His amazing recollection of the early events of his life are treated with rare insight and humor. It would appear that the author still harbors grudges and resentments dating far back. This is especially true of how he writes about his siblings and the fact that they never lived up to his expectations. He claims that they were all self-centered and indifferent to the one truly unique individual, himself. Nevertheless, in reading this book, I found it absolutely delightful beyond words. -Nathan Anton's Alter Ego
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About the Book
I have known Nathan Anton almost since his birth and couldn't help being impressed by his memoir. In sixty brief chapters, one reads of a sensitive child in an impoverished dysfunctional family. Anton recalls these events without bitterness and with considerable humor. With little formal education, Anton set the task of educating himself. That and the many events of his early life molded him into the man he has become. A maverick, iconoclast and nonconformist, he is reclusive, preferring reading to meaningless socializing. Even now, nearing one hundred, he is still imbued with an insatiable curiosity about everything. Shining the light of reason and common sense, he dissects current accepted ideas. The reader comes away with the inescapable conclusion that Anton is one lucky survivor considering that unlikelihood at various times in his long adventurous life! -Nathan Anton's Alter Ego
About the Author
The author happens to belong to the pantheon of unrecognized nobodies of another age and time! In sixty brief episodes, he humorously describes his Dickensian childhood, and his many heart-wrenching adventures. Beginning with his birth on the lower East Side of Manhattan, the author chronicles what life was like in a squalid gas lit railroad flat without a private toilet. Before the age of three, out of feeling of guilt for sponging on his family, the author began working. By age ten, he was working twelve hour days helping his struggling family survive. Mostly left to his own devices from then on, there were any number of daring escapades. At one point, when the author's family was hopelessly destitute, the author actually did own seven pairs of new shoes, one pair for each year of his life! Yet he was forbidden under dire threat to wear a single pair for what to him seemed an eternity. Nearing 100 at present, the author has had modest writing success in radio, TV and off-Broadway but nothing to rave about. While he never pursued success with anything like fanatical determination, fame in his view was hardly worth it. Being true to oneself was always far more important!