SLEEPAWAY SCHOOL : A Memoir - Softcover

Lee Stringer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1583227016 ISBN 13: 9781583227015

Publisher: SEVEN STORIES PRESS, 2006

Synopsis

Unusual book

About this title

About the Author:

LEE STRINGER's journey from childhood homelessness in the '60s, to adult homelessness in the '80s, to his present career as a writer and lecturer, as told in Sleepaway School and Grand Central Winter, is one of the great odysseys of contemporary American life and letters. Stringer is the only board member of Project Renewal who is also a former patient of the facility. He is the two-time recipient of the Washington Irving Award and, in 2005, a Lannan Foundation Residency. He is a former editor of and columnist for Street News. His essays and articles have appeared in a variety of other publications, including the Nation, the New York Times, and Newsday. He lives in Mamaroneck, New York, where he also serves on the board of the Mamaroneck Public Libraries.

Synopsis:

This is the prequel to stringer's bestselling first memoir, grand central winter, now in pb. A "Boy Meets World" story from the author of Grand Central Winter, the acclaimed memoir of life on the streets of 1980s New York. With a foreword by Kurt Vonnegut. Lee Stringer revealed his life living with the mole people in the tunnels under New York City in Grand Central Winter. In this new work, he tells of the hardships of his early childhood: his time in foster care, the pain of being poor and black, his expulsion from school and the years he spent at Hawthorne Cedar Knolls - a 'sleepaway school' for children at risk.

About this edition

• Publisher: SEVEN STORIES PRESS
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1583227016
• ISBN 13: 9781583227015
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240