Table of Contents
Author's Note xv
Introduction xvii
Chapter 0 Omphalos 1
Chapter 1 I Am Born, Etc. 11
Chapter 2 School 25
Chapter 3 Our Trip to Germany: Summer 1971 37
Chapter 4 Transfiguration: 1971-1972 47
Chapter 5 Moving to America: 1972 61
Chapter 6 Assumption Church & Trip to Greece 73
Chapter 7 My American Idyll 85
Chapter 8 Broadview 97
Chapter 9 The Bicentennial 109
Chapter 10 "Because He's Your Father": Fall 1976 119
Chapter 11 Falling into the Future: Fall 1977 127
Chapter 12 "You Have Gell-Friend?": Spring 1978 137
Chapter 13 Senior Year: 1979 145
Chapter 14 Graduation: 1980 151
Chapter 15 Trinity College: Fall 1980 157
Chapter 16 "Summer of Destiny" 169
Chapter 17 National Socialism in Danbury 175
Chapter 18 The Meaning of Meaning: Fall 1982 191
Chapter 19 The Last Bladderball: Junior Year 1982 205
Chapter 20 The Game 213
Chapter 21 Bohemian Threnody: Summer 1983 221
Chapter 22 "I ang Leo…" 235
Chapter 23 Senior Year: 1983-1984 239
Chapter 24 Graduation from Yale: 1984 249
Chapter 25 Grand Tour, Einzer Schtück 257
Chapter 26 The Grand Tour, Zweiter Schtück 269
Chapter 27 Alone! 285
Chapter 28 Home, Eric 299
Chapter 29 Onion Skin and Nothingness 313
Chapter 30 Boston: Spring 1985 325
Chapter 31 The Opera House 333
Chapter 32 Backward to Greece: Summer 1987 343
Chapter 33 Lost at Home 349
Chapter 34 The Golden Fish 367
Chapter 35 As I Lay Dying 375
Chapter 36 I Am Born Again, Etc. 377
Epilogue 381
Appendix 387
