Sleepaway School: A Memoir

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The author of Grand Central Winter, which has sold over 125,000 copies in its English edition alone, returns with the prequel to his first memoir now in paperback. Telling of the hardships of his childhood that led to his famous fall and rise, the reader gains an ever sharpening awareness of one child's life, built on the moving sands of early homelessness, strengths and happiness where they are found, and the occasional kindness and persistance of those around him. Like Dorothy Parker cradling a martini, he makes no apologies' - New York Times Book Review'

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"In Sleepaway School, a boy becomes a man. The way Lee Stringer tells it, that is by itself more than enough for an enthralling story." - Kurt Vonnegut, from the foreword"

Author Bio

Lee Stringer served for three years in the mid-1990s as a senior editor of Street News (the American equivalent of the Big Issue), eventually becoming editor-in-chief. His recent writing has appeared in The Nation and the New York Times among other publications.