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Sleepaway school: stories from a boy's life

Stringer, LeeVonnegut, Kurt(Foreword by)
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Like his brother before him, Stringer was surrendered to foster care, shortly after birth, by his unwed and underemployed mothera common practice for unmarried women in mid-century America.

Less common was that she returned six years later to reclaim her children.

Rather than leading to a happy ending, though, this is where Stringer's story begins.

The clash of being poor and black in an affluent, largely white New York suburb begins to foment pain and rage which erupts, more often than not, when he is at school.

One violent episode results in his expulsion from the sixth grade and his subsequent three-year stint at Hawthorne, the "sleepaway school" of the title.What follows is an intensely personal, American journey: a universal story of childhood where childhood universals are absent.

We experience how a child fashions his life out of the materials given to him, however threadbare.

This is a "boy-meets-world" story, the chronicle of one child's struggle simply to be.From the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details
Seven Stories
1583229779 / 9781583229774
eBook (EPUB)
04/01/2011
English
225 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Description based on print version record.