Stop-Time

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Stop-Time is a critically acclaimed memoir by Frank Conroy that vividly recounts his turbulent childhood and coming-of-age with novelistic intensity.

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instanceOf memoir
author Frank Conroy NERFINISHED
awarded William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel finalist NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception critically acclaimed
describedByCriticsAs classic of American memoir
innovative blend of fiction techniques and nonfiction material
firstEditionPublisher Viking Press NERFINISHED
genre memoir
hasForm episodic structure
nonlinear narrative
hasISBN 9780140044465
hasLiterarySignificance helped redefine contemporary memoir
hasMainCharacter Frank Conroy NERFINISHED
hasReprintPublisher Penguin Books NERFINISHED
hasSubject childhood
coming of age
family relationships
identity
memory
hasTargetAudience adult readers
hasTheme economic insecurity
effects of divorce
emotional turbulence
instability of family life
psychological development
search for self
influenced later American memoirs
isAutobiographicalAccountOf Frank Conroy NERFINISHED
language English
literaryMovement modern American nonfiction
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
mediaType hardcover
paperback
print
narrativePerspective first-person
narrativeStyle autobiographical
novelistic
notableFor literary style unusual for memoir at time of publication
vivid depiction of turbulent childhood
pageCount 288
publicationYear 1967
publisher The Viking Press
surface form: Viking Press
setting United States of America
surface form: United States
timePeriodCovered Conroy's adolescence
Conroy's childhood

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Frank Conroy notableWork Stop-Time