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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

StopTime A Memoir

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    A Paperback by Frank Conroy

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 2/24/1977 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780140044461
      978-0140044461
      ISBN-10 0140044469
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      Biography: adventurers and explorers

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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

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