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Article: That old sweet song A novel of music and growing up by Frank Conroy
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 19, 1993
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BODY & SOUL
By Frank Conroy. Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence.
447 pp. $24.95.
Gail Caldwell is book editor of the Globe.
Certain writers inspire loyalty independent of their output, and
such enduring faith is usually testament to the early work. More
than a quarter-century has passed since the publication of Frank
Conroy's autobiographical "Stop-Time," in 1967, yet the man's name
still evokes a powerful, rather enigmatic regard, even from those who
haven't read him. In spite of the fallow period that followed
"Stop-Time," Conroy made his mark as a teacher, becoming director of
the Iowa Writers' Workshop; in 1985, he produced a small collection
of stories, "Midair," the title ...