STOP TIME

First published in 1967, Stop-Time was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of modern American autobiography, a brilliant portray al of one boy's passage from childhood to adolescence and beyond. Here is Frank Conroy's wry, sad, beautiful tale of life on the roa d/ of odd jobs and lost friendships, brutal schools and first loves/ of a father's early death and a son's exhilarating escape into manhood.