About the same time Tony takes to carrying his old raincoat everywhere, to use as a screen in case he has an erection in public - an event that does finally occur at the blackboard in math class, when a book provides the necessary cover. Tony's mother encourages his friendship with Joel Hoober next door, but Tony is more interested in beautiful Lisa Hoober, the subject of his first wet dream, whom he watches undressing from his bedroom window. Thirteen-year-old Tony is increasingly distressed and resentful as his mother becomes a social-climbing phoney, his father tries to solve all problems by buying expensive gifts, and grandmother is displaced from the kitchen by the dictatorial new maid. Miglione's invention of electrical cartridges wins him an executive job in Queens, the family moves from Jersey City (where they "stood an line for the bathroom") to an impressive house on Long Island.
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