[willyboyishere]

Wow----I haven't heard anyone mention Stop-Time in ages!
I read it just when it came out, when was that,in '67?
It got lots of attention, first because of its literary quality, and secondarily because of the (then) novelty of such a young (and completely unknown)writer breaking into literature with what was basically an AUTOBIOGRAPHY, as if he were already famous. Conroy was somewhere in his early 30s at the time and eventually as you no doubt know ran the Iowa Writers Workshop for many many years, I think he just announced his intention to resign a few months ago, and a successor has been chosen.(Marilynne Robinson, another writer who has written very little) I know he had a second book but I can't remember whether it was anovel or stories, and it didn't get that much attention (too long a wait between books will queer a critic's enthusiasm.)

[durasell]

Conroy published Midair decades later, which was so-so then some stuff about Nantucket (not limericks!) a couple of other things I think. However, and most surprisingly, Stop Time really does hold up. If you're in the market for good books that have gone largely forgotten, try The Alexandria Quartet (Durrell) or Manhattan Transfer (Dos Passos. )