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The vivid, funny, and heartwarming story of your outcast who becomes an strange man in. If you have ever felt such as a misfit in school or been paralyzed from your family's imposing objectives, if you have ever obsessed about your appearance or panicked about choosing a career path, if you have ever wondered if each and every thing to which the body is uncovered, from egg yolks to X-rays, might damage you, then you might be surprised to find a kindred nature in The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt.Growing up in sunlit La Jolla, California, Jon-Jon Goulian was a hyperneurotic child who believed out of place wherever he converted, and who, in his own words, was permanently on the verge of "caving in under the pressures of modern life". From his concern with competition to his concern with acne, from his concern with making love to his concern with saturated fat, the number and depth of Jon-Jon's phobias were seemingly boundless. With his two aged brothers providing a sterling example he believed he could never surpass, and his stern grandfather, the politics philosopher Sidney Hook, constantly getting in touch with him to account for his intellectual inability, Jon-Jon, sense pressed up against the wall, wracked with despair, and dizzy with insecurity, instinctively resorted, for reasons that became clear to him only a long time later, to a most ingenious plan for keeping typical expectations at bay: women's clothing! Ingenious, perhaps, but woefully ineffective, as Jon-Jon discovers, again and again, that behind his skirt, leggings, halter top, and high heels, he's still as wildly neurotic, and as wracked with stress, as he's always been.
