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ELEVEN STORIES HIGH: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968 CORINNE DEMAS Fine
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “Like New Hardcover”
- ISBN
- 9780791446294
- Book Title
- Eleven Stories High : Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968
- Publisher
- STATE University of New York Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Women, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), General, Historical, Utopias, Sociology / Urban
- Item Weight
- 14.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 206 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
STATE University of New York Press
ISBN-10
0791446298
ISBN-13
9780791446294
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1629169
Product Key Features
Book Title
Eleven Stories High : Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968
Number of Pages
206 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), General, Historical, Utopias, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2000
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
14.7 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
00-022443
Reviews
"...the peaceful urban idyll of Corinne Demas..." -- The New York Observer "...evokes a girl's coming of age in New York City's planned 'utopian' community." -- Publishers Weekly "She writes with affection and humor about her years at 524 East 20th Street and her family, friends and neighbors." -- Peter Cooper Village/ Stuyvesant Town News "This is an irresistible memoir. The book swarms with the sort of everyday detail that not only makes a life memorable but that asks the reader to savor rather than reject it. I smiled on every page." -- Anne Bernays, author of Professor Romeo "Combines a startling immediacy of presentation with the inevitable distancing of retrospection....Eleven Stories High is richly layered, fondly written, and true in the necessary way of art." -- Sven Birkerts, author of Readings "Corinne Demas is a wonderful storyteller, and her ability to render anecdotes about times and places gone by--to conjure up the tastes and smells and details of a vanished world--is quite remarkable. She has managed to give us a piece of urban history set within the framework of her own family history. She has also given us a stunningly detailed portrait of a most specific urban culture within a narrative that is itself a compelling story of one young woman's coming of age." -- Jay Neugeboren, author of Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival: A Memoir "Demas has found a perfect way to divide up her ostensible subjects--elevators, stores, games, school--to give us a very precise picture of her life in a vertical neighborhood, yet each opens out, by virtue of the author's ingeniousness and candidness, into a much larger consideration of family, community, city. At the same time, she brings her family to us with remarkable clarity. This is a sociologically dead-on representation of mid-century urban life that is neither Leave it to Beaver nor Ozzie and Harriet in its simplifications nor Manchild in the Promised Land in its accusatory grimness." -- Rosellen Brown, author of Before and After "Corinne Demas's Eleven Stories High is a remarkable portrait of a vanished world but not a vanished place. The social history it captures is important, presenting the story of a transitional generation of women, suspended between the quietism of the American Dream of the post-war era of the 1950s and the tumultuous upheavals to come at the end of the sixties. A vivid and paradoxical picture of both the urban American and domestic life once lived, captured by a writer of lyric strengths and fastidious intellect." -- William O'Rourke, author of Signs of the Literary Times: Essays, Reviews, Profiles 1970-1992 "A marvelous memoir. I loved every word...Stuyvesant Town, with its unexpected charm, is as strong a character as any I've encountered in personal narrative. Demas's portrait of her mother is exquisite." -- Anita Shreve, author of The Pilot's Wife "Eleven Stories High is a marvelously sensible, observant, honest, and often amusing portrait of a very particular place that manages at the same time to conjure the experiences of many contented children growing up in many kinds of places." -- Rosellen Brown, author of Before and After "A very meticulous writer, steady and believable. Her powers of recall are extraordinary. I regard this as an important record of contemporary life, as well as a most interesting coming-of-age memoir." -- Shirley Abbott, author of Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South, "I loved every word ... Stuyvesant Town, with its unexpected charm, is as strong a character as any I've encountered in personal narrative. Demas's portrait of her mother is exquisite." -- Anita Shreve, author of The Pilot's Wife "Corinne Demas's evocation of the specifics of childhood games, of family rituals, of the new TV culture, of the significance of the automobile, of the way we worked and played and learned, and of the ways in which the urban culture yearned to become a suburban culture, is, quite simply, superb. It is a most tenderly wrought book, full of affection for its world--whether it tells of shopping rituals or dating rituals, dentistry or an all-girls school of the fifties." -- Jay Neugeboren, author of Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival: A Memoir " Eleven Stories High is a marvelously sensible, observant, honest, and often amusing portrait of a very particular place that manages at the same time to conjure the experiences of many contented children growing up in many kinds of places." -- Rosellen Brown, author of Before and After "A very meticulous writer, steady and believable. Her powers of recall are extraordinary. I regard this as an important record of contemporary life, as well as a most interesting coming-of-age memoir." -- Shirley Abbott, author of Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South "...evokes a girl's coming of age in New York City's planned 'utopian' community." -- Publishers Weekly "...the peaceful urban idyll of Corinne Demas..." -- The New York Observer "She writes with affection and humor about her years at 524 East 20th Street and her family, friends and neighbors." -- Peter Cooper Village/ Stuyvesant Town News "This is an irresistible memoir. The book swarms with the sort of everyday detail that not only makes a life memorable but that asks the reader to savor rather than reject it. I smiled on every page." -- Anne Bernays, author of Professor Romeo "Combines a startling immediacy of presentation with the inevitable distancing of retrospection ... Eleven Stories High is richly layered, fondly written, and true in the necessary way of art." -- Sven Birkerts, author of Readings "Corinne Demas's Eleven Stories High is a remarkable portrait of a vanished world but not a vanished place. The social history it captures is important, presenting the story of a transitional generation of women, suspended between the quietism of the American Dream of the post-war era of the 1950s and the tumultuous upheavals to come at the end of the sixties. A vivid and paradoxical picture of both the urban American and domestic life once lived, captured by a writer of lyric strengths and fastidious intellect." -- William O'Rourke, author of Signs of the Literary Times: Essays, Reviews, Profiles 1970-1992
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 B
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Prologue Acknowledgments 1. Stuyvesant Town 2. Elevators 3. Stores 4. Creatures 5. Games 6. Night 7. Dentistry 8. Music 9. School 10. Phones 11. Shopping 12. Girls 13. Biology 14. Woman's Work 15. Television 16. Greeks 17. Holidays 18. China 19. Subways 20. Cars 21. Kisco 22. Bricks Epilogue
Synopsis
Eleven Stories High is a memoir of a middle-class New York childhood, the perceptions of a girl growing up in a housing project that she deemed a "utopia of the fifties." The story follows the process of memory, rather than the conventions of chronology, and explores the concept of "home," how a place like Stuyvesant Town--impersonal, symmetrical, utilitarian--shapes a childhood.
LC Classification Number
F128.68.S78D46 2000
ebay_catalog_id
4
Copyright Date
2000
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