Lost in the Funhouse is but one of a collection of works that, in the author's own words, are "experimental". It tells, through disjointed, baffling prose, the story of Ambrose, a boy in his early teens thirteen, in fact, and on the cusp on puberty and his family who go to Ocean City for a holiday. Three times a year the family makes this trip to the shore: on Memorial, Labor and Independence Day. This particular trip occurs on the latter, at some point during the Second World War.
Ambrose, his parents, Uncle Karl, his fifteen-year-old brother, Peter, and Magda, a pretty fourteen-year-old girl make the trip by car, a black 1936 LaSalle sedan. En route to Ocean City, the family passes the time playing various games including cow-poker. Moreover, 'Looking for the Towers' is a.....
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