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Sleepaway School : Stories from a Boy's Life: a Memoir
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Sleepaway School : Stories from a Boy's Life: a Memoir Paperback - 2006

by Stringer, Lee

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"Sleepaway School" is Stringer's recounting of his years at Hawthorne Cedar Knolls--a school for kids at risk--and the events that led up to them. This is a "boy-meets-world" story, the chronicle of one child's struggle simply to be.

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  • Title Sleepaway School : Stories from a Boy's Life: a Memoir
  • Author Stringer, Lee
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Seven Stories Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date April 30, 2006
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 40757322-6
  • ISBN 9781583227015 / 1583227016
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.52 x 0.64 in (20.83 x 14.02 x 1.63 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Problem children - United States, Stringer, Lee
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the publisher

LEE STRINGER's journey from childhood homelessness in the ’60s, to adult homelessness in the ’80s, to his present career as a writer and lecturer, as told in Sleepaway School and Grand Central Winter, is one of the great odysseys of contemporary American life and letters. Stringer, the only board member of Project Renewal who is also a former patient of the facility, has demonstrated that writers are made, not born. He is the two-time recipient of the Washington Irving Award and, in 2005, a Lannan Foundation Residency. He is a former editor and columnist of Street News. His essays and articles have appeared in a variety of other publications, including The Nation, The New York Times, and Newsday. He lives in Mamaroneck, New York, where he also serves on the board of the Mamaroneck Public Libraries.


From the Hardcover edition.

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Three fatherless sons walking down Palmer Avenue, avoiding the cracks in the pavement.

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  • Kliatt, 09/01/2006, Page 40

About the author

LEE STRINGER's journey from childhood homelessness in the '60s, to adult homelessness in the '80s, to his present career as a writer and lecturer, as told in Sleepaway School and Grand Central Winter, is one of the great odysseys of contemporary American life and letters. Stringer is the only board member of Project Renewal who is also a former patient of the facility. He is the two-time recipient of the Washington Irving Award and, in 2005, a Lannan Foundation Residency. He is a former editor of and columnist for Street News. His essays and articles have appeared in a variety of other publications, including the Nation, the New York Times, and Newsday. He lives in Mamaroneck, New York, where he also serves on the board of the Mamaroneck Public Libraries.

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