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Famous builderPaul Lisicky

Famous builder

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"Paul Lisicky remembers being not much like other boys his age, but rather the awkward thirteen-year-old with "arms thick as drinking straws," who composes tunes in his head that he might later send to Folk Mass Today or to the producers of The Partridge Family. Born into a family whose provisional success bumps them up from his father's immigrant upbringing and into suburban America, Paul puts his creative, undaunted energy into drawing intricate housing development plans and writing liturgical music, while his younger brothers rescue midcentury modern furniture from the neighbors' trash and…

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2 editions
  • Other · English · 2015
    Graywolf Press · 9781555979300
  • Other · English · 2002
    Graywolf Press · 276 pages · 9781555973698
American AuthorsBiographyChildhood and youthSocial life and customsEssaysUnited states, biography