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This memoir evokes a girl''s coming of age in a postwar New York City planned, utopian community.

Eleven Stories High is a memoir of a middle-class New York childhood, the perceptions of a girl growing up in a housing project that she deemed a utopia of the fifties. The story follows the process of memory, rather than the conventions of chronology, and explores the concept of home, how a place like Stuyvesant Town-impersonal, symmetrical, utilitarian-shapes a childhood.

Eleven Stories High Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town

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      Publisher: State University Press of New York (SUNY)
      Publication Date: 7/11/2002 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780791446300, 978-0791446300
      ISBN10: 0791446301

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This memoir evokes a girl''s coming of age in a postwar New York City planned, utopian community.

      Eleven Stories High is a memoir of a middle-class New York childhood, the perceptions of a girl growing up in a housing project that she deemed a utopia of the fifties. The story follows the process of memory, rather than the conventions of chronology, and explores the concept of home, how a place like Stuyvesant Town-impersonal, symmetrical, utilitarian-shapes a childhood.

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