{"product_id":"stop-time-a-memoir-9780140044461","title":"Stop-Time: A Memoir","description":"First published in 1967, \u003ci\u003eStop-Time\u003c\/i\u003e was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of modern American autobiography, a brilliant portrayal of one boy's passage from childhood to adolescence and beyond. Here is Frank Conroy's wry, sad, beautiful tale of life on the road; 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Conroy \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1936 and graduated from Haverford College in 1958. He was director of the prestigious Writers' Workshop. Conroy wrote an autobiography \u003ci\u003eStop-Time\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1967, and his collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eMidair\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1985. His work has appeared in the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Esquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e GQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Harper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePartisan Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459936882962,"sku":"9780140044461","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b57ad414-4a72-47ad-83ab-821647af018b.jpg?v=1730016417","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stop-time-a-memoir-9780140044461","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}