Sleepaway School

A Memoir

Lee Stringer

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Seven Stories
01 August 2011

Biography; Autobiography: general; Homelessness

Like his brother before him, Stringer was surrendered to foster care, shortly after birth, by his unwed and underemployed mother-a 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.

By: Lee Stringer
Imprint: Seven Stories
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 281g
ISBN: 9781583227015
ISBN 10: 1583227016
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 August 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Sleepaway School: A Memoir

""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""