Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968

by Corinne Demas

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791446298
• ISBN13: 9780791446294
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"