http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/46758

A fly in the soup memoirs

[M]ore than a writer's account of his own formation; it is also a story of a man shaped by extremes of history, a story of displacement, war and exile--a central story of the last century and one that Simic, who never let horror deprive him of aesthetic and sensual pleasure, tells vividly ... Simic is a natural storyteller with an innate distaste for pallid truths, and his memoir is one of those books in which a life is so well-evoked that we recognize ourselves in experiences we've never had. --Los Angeles Times.

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