Where's My Wand?: One Boy's Magical Triumph Over Alienation and Shag Carpeting - Softcover

Poole, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425241017 ISBN 13: 9780425241011

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, 2011

Synopsis

"Gut-splittingly funny...a deeply moving account of a boy's attempt to control his world with his own brand of magic." --People magazine, 4 stars.

Tracey Ullman once described Eric Poole as "the best undiscovered writer I ever met." Now the world can enjoy his achingly honest wit and gift for capturing real life characters in this memoir about growing up in the 1970's with an obsessive-compulsive mother and a crush on Endora from Bewitched.

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Review:

"Fragrant as it is of Love's Baby Soft perfume and hormones, Poole's memoir of growing up gay and Baptist in the '70s would be worth reading if it were just gut-splittingly funny (he describes himself as the kind of boy who would only crawl beneath a car "to retrieve a Cher album that had rolled under it"). But Wand is also a deeply moving account of a boy's attempt to control his world with his own brand of magic. That world includes his sometimes terrifying family (his OCD mother makes him rake the shag carpet every night), an armless best friend and a golden boy Poole hoped to anoint with - well, Poole kind of thought it was the spirit of Jesus. It's Poole's mother, though, who is the standout character. Annihilating and loving by turns, she makes Sophie Portnoy look like June Cleaver, yet Poole finds her humor and humanity. We should all have such tenderness toward our parents."
-Judith Newman, "People" Magazine (four stars)

About the Author:

Eric Poole is VP of marketing for a major media company and the winner of over thirty advertising awards. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his partner of nine years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0425241017
• ISBN 13: 9780425241011
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292