
Fish Out of Water
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For Eric Metaxas, the answer is Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life-a poetic and sometimes hilarious memoir of his early years, in which the Queens-born son of Greek and German immigrants struggles to make sense of a world in which he never quite seems to fit.
Renowned for his biographies of William Wilberforce, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther, Metaxas is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, the witty host of the acclaimed Socrates in the City conversation series, and a nationally syndicated radio personality. But here he reveals a personal story few have heard, taking us from his mostly happy childhood-and riotous triumphs at Yale-to the nightmare of drifting toward a dark abyss of meaninglessness from which he barely escapes.
Along the way he introduces us to an unforgettable troupe of picaresque characters who join this quintessentially first-generation American boy in what is both bildungsroman and odyssey-and which underscores just how funny, serious, happy, sad, and ultimately meaningful life can be.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Author's Note
- Introduction
- Chapter Zero: Omphalos
- Chapter One: I Am Born, Etc.
- Chapter Two: School
- Chapter Three: Our Trip to Germany
- Chapter Four: Transfiguration
- Chapter Five: Moving to America
- Chapter Six: Assumption Church & Trip to Greece
- Chapter Seven: My American Idyll
- Chapter Eight: Broadview
- Chapter Nine: The Bicentennial
- Chapter Ten: "Because He's Your Father"
- Chapter Eleven: Falling into the Future
- Chapter Twelve: "You Have Gell-Friend?"
- Chapter Thirteen: Senior Year
- Chapter Fourteen: Graduation
- Chapter Fifteen: Trinity College
- Chapter Sixteen: "Summer of Destiny"
- Chapter Seventeen: National Socialism in Danbury
- Chapter Eighteen: The Meaning of Meaning
- Chapter Nineteen: The Last Bladderball
- Chapter Twenty: The Game
- Chapter Twenty-One: Bohemian Threnody
- Chapter Twenty-Two: "I ang Leo..."
- Chapter Twenty-Three: Senior Year
- Chapter Twenty-Four: Graduation from Yale
- Chapter Twenty-Five: Grand Tour, Einzer Schtück
- Chapter Twenty-Six: The Grand Tour, Zweiter Schtück
- Chapter Twenty-Seven: Alone!
- Chapter Twenty-Eight: Home, Eric
- Chapter Twenty-Nine: Onion Skin and Nothingness
- Chapter Thirty: Boston
- Chapter Thirty-One: The Opera House
- Chapter Thirty-Two: Backward to Greece
- Chapter Thirty-Three: Lost at Home
- Chapter Thirty-Four: The Golden Fish
- Chapter Thirty-Five: As I Lay Dying
- Chapter Thirty-Six: I Am Born Again, Etc.
- Epilogue
- Photographs
- Appendix
- About the Author
- Copyright
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