Stop-time Author:Frank Conroy Like the measured, punctuated musical silences its title alludes to, this book vibrates with meaning and emotion. Becaust Stoop-time is a memoir of boyhood and adolescence, it deals with family conflict, friendship and love, the paralysis of terror, prinde in new powers-all the commonplaces of reminiscence. But this is the story of a young life ... more »told with such freedom and skill, peopled by characters so rich, that it transcends conventional categories and makes an exhilarating claim for greatness« less