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| | Corinne Demas - Eleven Stories High |
 | | Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948--68 is a memoir of my middle class New York childhood, and the particular perceptions of a girl growing up in a housing project where the apartments and buildings are identical and you're prohibited from walking on the grass. |
 | | For these are scenes from a childhood that was free of hardship, a childhood that was privileged, and--dare I say it?--relatively happy, and a portrait of a place, Stuyvesant Town, that was a comfortable, middle-class community, a utopia of the Fifties. |
 | | Stuyvesant Town, with its unexpected charm is as strong a character as any I've encountered in personal narrative. |
| www.corinnedemas.com /books/eleven.htm (990 words) |
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