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Eleven Stories High : Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968
Eleven Stories High Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town 19481968 Author:Corinne Demas Eleven Stories High is a memoir of a middle class childhood, the perceptions of a girl growing up in a New York City housing project that the author 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--... more »impersonal, symmetrical, utilitarian--shapes a childhood.« less