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

By Corinne Demas

Book Overview

This memoir evokes a girl's coming of age in a postwar New York City planned, "utopian" community.

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791446301
• ISBN13: 9780791446300
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher