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Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968
Corinne Demas
Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968
Corinne Demas
This memoir evokes a girl's coming of age in a postwar New York City planned, "utopian" community.
This poignant memoir of life in Stuyvesant Town, a New York City housing project, describes growing up in what the author deems a "utopia of the fifties." Corinne Demas evokes in convincing detail the friendships, foibles, and fantasies of a girl's coming of age in a "vertical" neighborhood of pets, games, elevator rides, and family life. She follows the process of memory, rather than the conventions of chronology, to take us on a vivid journey of the 1950's and 60's America of Halloween costumes, roller skating, the new T. V. culture, high school dances, and music lessons. She lovingly tells of her father--an unconventional dentist--and her mother, both a traditional housewife and a high school biology teacher.
"I loved every word.... Stuyvesant Town, with its unexpected charm, is as strong a character as any I've encountered in personal narrative." -- Anita Shreve, author of The Pilot's Wife
"Corinne Demas is a wonderful storyteller, and her ability to render anecdotes about times and places gone by--to conjure up the tastes and smells and details of a vanished world--is quite remarkable." -- Jay Neugeboren, author of Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival: A Memoir
Médias | Livres Paperback Book (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé) |
Validé | 11 juillet 2002 |
ISBN13 | 9780791446300 |
Éditeurs | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 208 |
Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 322 g |
Langue et grammaire | English |
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