Measure of a Man is a throwback to an era when YA novels were about going to a beach town in the 1970s, drinking rum for the first time, and maybe touching a boob. Now YA novels are about overthrowing dystopian regimes (and maybe touching a boob). An adaptation of One Fat Summer, sportswriter Robert Lipsyte’s 1977 semi-autobiographical novel, Measure of a Man feels pleasantly out of time.