Eleven Stories High

Eleven Stories HighThis memoir evokes a girl's coming of age in a postwar New York City planned, "utopian" community. Eleven Stories High is a memoir of a middle class New York childhood, the perceptions of a girl growing up in a housing project that she deemed a "utopia of the fifties." The story follows the process of memory, rather than the conventions of chronology, and explores the concept of "home," how a place like Stuyvesant Town impersonal, symmetrical,

A new introduction updates such aspects of academia as politics and tenure

and shows how different performances have illuminated the contradictions in this play

man's ultimate becoming

this book offers a unique synthesis

Ava is the first woman whose name we know who wrote in German

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it traces the subsequent collapse that saw the deaths of many of the king’s loved ones

social systems and archaeology of the Egyptian people

what would it mean for us as individual human beings

this book is essential for anyone who has a stake in public higher education in New York state

Chinua Achebe

with international contributors