Stop-Time: A Memoir

Conroy, Frank

ISBN 10 : 0140044469 ISBN 13 : 9780140044461

Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 1977

Synopsis

Stop-time First published in 1967, this is a memoir of boyhood and adolescence. Beginning with a lesson in brutality at a progressive boarding school, the book moves to a self-help settlement in Florida, a Connecticut mental hospital and onto New York. Full description

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Frank Conroy was born in 1936 and graduated from Haverford College in 1958. He was director of the prestigious Writers' Workshop. Conroy wrote an autobiography Stop-Time, published in 1967, and his collection of stories, Midair, was published in 1985. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Harper’s Magazine, and Partisan Review.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

First published in 1967, Stop-Time was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of modern American autobiography, a brilliant portrayal of one boy's passage from childhood to adolescence and beyond. Here is Frank Conroy's wry, sad, beautiful tale of life on the road; of odd jobs and lost friendships, brutal schools and first loves; of a father's early death and a son's exhilarating escape into manhood.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0140044469
• ISBN 13: 9780140044461
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Nombre de pages: 288