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Stop-Time: A Memoirby Frank Conroy
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Stop-Time is as generous on the subject of growing up lost in America, as moving in its absolute intelligence and compassion, as anywork that has appeared before or since. Review:"Stop-Time is unique, an autobiography with the intimate unprotected candor of a novel. What makes it special, however, is the style, dry as an etching, sparse, elegant, modest, cheerful. Conroy has that subtle sense of the proportion of things which one usually finds only in established writers just after the mellowing of their career." Norman Mailer Synopsis:Conroy's classic memoir of his boyhood: his brutal experimental boarding school; a sojourn in the mental institution where his mother was a warden; his neurotic father's abandonment, mad mistress, and eventual death; and Frank's final escape into relative normalcy. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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