Barracuda In The Attic by Kipp Friedman, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Whether shooting pool with the mobster Crazy Joey Gallo, attending a dinnerparty hosted by an aged but remarkably spry Groucho Marx, or simply playingdoctor with a classmate in the former estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald, KippFriedman led a colorful childhood. The youngest son of celebrated writer andsatirist Bruce Jay Friedman, Kipp looks back fondly on the amusing and sometimesconfusing events and encounters that helped shape his early life in this movingtribute to growing up among a family of creative artists swept up in thewhirlwind of the New York arts scene of the 1960s and 1970s. Follow Kipp'sexploits as bystander and willing participant as he joins older brothers Josh(writer and musician) and Drew (renowned cartoonist and illustrator) as threemusketeers on a youthful quest to discover the scariest low-budget horror moviesalong 42nd Street and Times Square. Delight in their search for classic comicbooks, monster magazines (and the occasional nudie magazine) at their beloved, dingy Back-Issue Store in midtown Manhattan. Encounter his family's bizarre ColdWar-like relationship with their new neighbors in an updated suburban Jewishversion of the Hatfields vs. the McCoys. Witness their Marx Brothers-like anticswhile on an all-expenses-paid junket at the Beverly Hills Hotel courtesy of CBS. The stage shifts from New York City to the Caribbean to the suburbs of LongIsland, and from the South of France to Broadway and Hollywood as Kipp retraceshis family's defining moments with the backdrop of his father's meteoric risefrom editor of mens adventure magazines to successful novelist, playwright, andscreenwriter. Through it all, Kipp paints a loving portrait of a childhood andfamily life that is both magical and yet familiar and real. | Barracuda In The Attic by Kipp Friedman, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters