Headlock: Chronicles of a Psychiatrist's Son

Headlock: Chronicles of a Psychiatrist's Son


Eugene Rubin's "Headlock" is a rueful, funny, profane and frequently touching memoir of growing up as the anxious offspring of a famed psychiatrist/author in ’70s New York City.The book recounts an array of teenage nightmares and misadventures, as protagonist Eugene navigates the social snake pit of an elite New York prep school; becomes fixated on a discarded copy of Screw Magazine; obsesses about his college applications; spies on an

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