Sleeping Arrangements - Hardcover
A memoir of growing up in the Bronx during the 1950s follows Lily--the illegitimate daughter of Rosie--who, after her mother's death, is raised by a pair of eccentric bachelor uncles
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About the Author:
Laura Shaine Cunningham is a playwright and journalist whose fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Vogue, and Mirabella, among other publications. The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships for her writing and theatrical work, Cunningham divides her time between New York City and her "place in the country."
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“Comic, touching, delightful... The kind of book you buy multiple copies of to send to your mother and your best friends.” –People
“A model memoir... funny, sad, irreverent and generous.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“Piercing and immediate... [a] funny, enchanting memoir of a Bronx childhood.” –The Washington Post
“[Cunningham] transforms her ‘Bronx of the emotions’ into the ‘Babylonian Bronx,’ a world simmering with sex and death and intrigue... Sharp-witted and funny but never mean, she’s a memorialist a bit like Truman Capote, if he’d been Jewish and female and less bitchy... A lovely, novelistic memoir.” –Julie Salamon, The Wall Street Journal
“Reads like a novel... You may find yourself sitting very quietly, mulling over the marvels of this truly wonderful book.” –Anne Tyler, The Baltimore Sun
“Original, quirky, poignant and hilarious.” –The Los Angeles Times
“[Sleeping Arrangements] proves that, in the hands of a talented writer, failure, dashed expectations, and sexual awkwardness can be horribly funny.” –Chicago Tribune
“One of those books that makes you sad when it ends, because you want it to go on forever.” –The Christian Science Monitor
“A model memoir... funny, sad, irreverent and generous.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“Piercing and immediate... [a] funny, enchanting memoir of a Bronx childhood.” –The Washington Post
“[Cunningham] transforms her ‘Bronx of the emotions’ into the ‘Babylonian Bronx,’ a world simmering with sex and death and intrigue... Sharp-witted and funny but never mean, she’s a memorialist a bit like Truman Capote, if he’d been Jewish and female and less bitchy... A lovely, novelistic memoir.” –Julie Salamon, The Wall Street Journal
“Reads like a novel... You may find yourself sitting very quietly, mulling over the marvels of this truly wonderful book.” –Anne Tyler, The Baltimore Sun
“Original, quirky, poignant and hilarious.” –The Los Angeles Times
“[Sleeping Arrangements] proves that, in the hands of a talented writer, failure, dashed expectations, and sexual awkwardness can be horribly funny.” –Chicago Tribune
“One of those books that makes you sad when it ends, because you want it to go on forever.” –The Christian Science Monitor
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- PublisherKnopf
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0394561120
- ISBN 13 9780394561127
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages195
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