The Unusual Autobiography of Orion Zet-ien Les Druyan

A condensed sixty year biography, started by a twelve-year-old Chinese-American boy on the day of his father"s funeral, and continuing until his own death. His adoring uncle Lee becomes his mentor, teaching the boy (Orion) the ways of the world. The real ways. And Orion learns that his uncle wears a coat of many colors. As with all of us, the boy loses his innocence at the same rate that he learns the meaning of the word. But his naivete dissolves to a different depth and at a different rate than for most of us. By the time he"s in his early twenties he"s committed, or has been a part of, a variety of felonies. Early on he protests to his uncle, "This is serious, it"s not like just pulling the tag off a mattress." Lee replies that in life there are no dress rehearsals; you have only one shot and you have to take full advantage of it. And they both do. Large sized type for comfortable reading. ** "Our crew has all circled the drain and is spiritless now. And what a hell of a bunch we were. Our asymmetry was our singularity. I hope that via this diary some individuals of the generations that follow will get to know the aunts and uncles and cousins that they missed as we passed each other during the intervals of life and death. They might be interested in some of the closeted skeletons of an ancestor here and there: bribery, lying, deceit, stealing, manipulation, the Mafia, crooked police and clergy, ingenious revenge, mystery women, a murder, moral and ethical dilemmas, subterfuge, tax avoidance and evasion, money laundering, infidelity, changing of identities, avoiding mail and wire fraud, ultimate errors, corruption for reasons of survival, some drugs, and more than a few peculiarities, sexual and otherwise. There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity." - Orion Zet-ien Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Unusual Autobiography of Orion Zet-ien (Les Druyan)