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Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
State Univ of New York Pr
Publication date
July 1, 2002
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780791446300
ISBN-10
0791446301
Dimensions
0.50 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
0.60 lbs.
Original list price
$31.95
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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
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
Editions
Hardcover
from State Univ of New York Pr (September 1, 2000)
9780791446294 | details & prices | 189 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $55.50
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
from State Univ of New York Pr (July 1, 2002)
9780791446300 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $31.95
About: This memoir evokes a girl's coming of age in a postwar New York City planned, "utopian" community.
About: This memoir evokes a girl's coming of age in a postwar New York City planned, "utopian" community.
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