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    Stop-Time

    A Memoir

    Author Frank Conroy
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
    On sale Feb 24, 1977 | 288 Pages | 9781101549490
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    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-TimePrologue

    1. Savages
    2. Space and a Dead Mule
    3. Going North
    4. White Days and Red Nights
    5. Hate, and a Kind of Music
    6. Please Don't Take My Sunshine Away
    7. Shit
    8. A Yo-Yo Going Down, A Mad Squirrel Coming Up
    9. Falling
    10. The Coldness of Public Places
    11. Blindman's Buff
    12. Nights Away from Home
    13. Death by Itself
    14. License to Drive
    15. Hanging On
    16. Losing My Cherry
    17. Going to Sea
    18. Elsinore, 1953
    19. The Lock on the Metro Door
    20. Unambiguous Events

    Epilogue

    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. View titles by Frank Conroy

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    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.

    Table of Contents

    Stop-TimePrologue

    1. Savages
    2. Space and a Dead Mule
    3. Going North
    4. White Days and Red Nights
    5. Hate, and a Kind of Music
    6. Please Don't Take My Sunshine Away
    7. Shit
    8. A Yo-Yo Going Down, A Mad Squirrel Coming Up
    9. Falling
    10. The Coldness of Public Places
    11. Blindman's Buff
    12. Nights Away from Home
    13. Death by Itself
    14. License to Drive
    15. Hanging On
    16. Losing My Cherry
    17. Going to Sea
    18. Elsinore, 1953
    19. The Lock on the Metro Door
    20. Unambiguous Events

    Epilogue

    Author

    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. View titles by Frank Conroy

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