Stop-Time

Conroy, Frank

ISBN 10: 0670671908 / ISBN 13: 9780670671908

Published by The Viking Press, 1967

About this Item

US orders ship with signature confirmation. 1967 Viking Press hardcover first edition with dust jacket protected in mylar, inscribed by the author on the half title page ("_____, with affection and gratitude, Frank"). A lot of edgewear (some tears closed), chipping, and soil/tanning on dj, white paint stains and sunning on bottom edge of boards (also sunning on top edge), back corners a little bumped, light tanning, else text clean, binding tight .

Seller Inventory # ABE-1717693776432

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stop-Time
• Publisher: The Viking Press
• Publication Date: 1967
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670671908
• ISBN 13: 9780670671908
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author

About this title

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. Stop-Time is as generous on the subject of growing up lost in America, as moving in its absolute intelligence and compassion, as anywork that has appeared before or since.

About the Author

Frank Conroy was born in 1936 and graduated from Haverford College in 1958. He was director of the prestigious Writers' Workshop. Conroy wrote an autobiography Stop-Time, published in 1967, and his collection of stories, Midair, was published in 1985. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Harper’s Magazine, and Partisan Review.