Sleeping Arrangements - Softcover

Cunningham, Laura Shaine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573228230 ISBN 13: 9781573228237

Publisher: Riverhead Books, 2000

Synopsis

From the acclaimed novelist, playwright, and journalist Laura Cunningham, a coming of age story and enchanting memoir of childhood

"Here is Lily Moore at 10, as judged by her fifth grade teacher: 'Unsatisfactory...Hair matted, uncombed, disheveled appearance. Soil under nails.' She has in addition been AWOL from school for 37 full and 38 half days...She lives in a bizarre apartment whose living room furnishings consist of a gold lame castro convertible and two pink bath mats--her choice. She shares the habitation with a senile old woman and two bachelors, one of whom habitually cooks popcorn for breakfast wearing a pith helmet...All indications to the contrary notwithstanding. Lily is living a blessed life, as depicted in Laura Cunningham's unromantic, spare, funny, enchanting memoir." --The Washington Post

"A wonderfully vivid chronicle of a young girl's coming of age...funny and sad, irreverent and generous...A model memoir." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"Sharp-witted and funny but never mean. A lovely novelistic memoir." --Julie Salamon, The Wall Street Journal

"Original, quirky, poignant, and hilarious." --Los Angeles Times

"A winner...life-affirming." --San Francisco Chronicle

 

 

 

About this title

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."

Review

“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

About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1573228230
• ISBN 13: 9781573228237
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240