Stop-Time : A Memoir

Savages. -- Space and a dead mule. -- Going North. -- White days and red knights. -- Hate, and a kind of music. -- Please don't take my sunshine away. -- Shit. -- A yo-yo going down, a mad squirrel coming up. -- Falling. -- The coldness of public places. -- Blindman's bluff. -- Nights away from home. -- Death by itself. -- License to drive. -- Hanging on. -- Losing my cherry. -- Going to sea. -- Elsinore, 1933. -- The lock on the Metro door. -- Unambiguous events. 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. First published in 1967, this is a memoir of boyhood and adolescence. Beginning with a lesson in brutality at a progressive boarding school, the book moves to a self-help settlement in Florida, a Connecticut mental hospital and onto New York.