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Cunningham was born and raised in new york, where she now lives with her two. Now she tells us what became of that little girland her lifelong quest to find the perfect country home. Then join your friends and neighbors for community discussions about the book, a dramatic reading, a film showing, a memoirwriting workshop, an academic panel. The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships for her writing and theatrical work, cunningham divides her time between new york city and. A second memoir by the author of the acclaimed sleeping arrangements, laura shaine cunninghams quest for the perfect country house is both hilarious and touching. Unbelievable download sleeping arrangements ebook pdf free. Sleeping arrangements has 5 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace.
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Nina shengold talks with writer laura shaine cunningham about sleeping arrangements featured in the 2008 one book, one new paltz. Accessories such as cd, codes, toys, and dust jackets may not be included. Her plays are published by broadway play publishing and have been produced by steppenwolf. An exlibrary book and may have standard library stamps andor stickers. You are invited to read this funny, enchanting memoir of a bronx childhood. Please note over seas buyers if the book extra large or. Sleeping arrangements is as much the story of a young girl coming of age in the 50s and 60s as it is a portrait of new york at the same time. In her charming 1989 memoir, sleeping arrangements, laura cunningham created an indelible portrait of.
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Laura shaine cunningham is a playwright and journalist whose fiction and nonfiction has appeared in the new yorker, the atlantic monthly, the new york times, vogue, and mirabella, among other publications. Sleeping arrangements by laura shaine cunningham book. Her memoir, sleeping arrangements, has been hailed as a modern classic, by michiko kakutani a model memoir. Jun 01, 2001 in sleeping arrangements, author laura shaine cunningham movingly remembered her life growing up in the bronx with her single mother, rosie, until the latters untimely death, after which laura s guardians were her mothers two oddball bachelor brothers, len and gabe. Laura shaine cunninghams memoir of being orphaned at age eight and raised by two bachelor uncles in the bronx in the glow of yankee stadium twinight doubleheaders, has become one of harper lee.
In one chapter, she includes the scribbled autobiography of a distant relative who committed suicide at the age of 87. A place in the country by laura shaine cunningham isbn. Laura shaine cunningham is the author of two acclaimed memoirs, sleeping arrangements and a place in the country, which were first published in the new york. Sleeping arrangements, the memory play receiving its premiere at washingtons theater j, is pleasant but inconsequential. Sleeping arrangements kindle edition by cunningham, laura shaine. As a young girl encouraged by her unmarried mother, lily spins fictions of an absent father fighting overseas long after the war has ended.
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