Ebook {Epub PDF} At the Strangers Gate: Arrivals in New York by Adam Gopnik
About At the Strangers’ Gate. From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the s. When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the www.doorway.ru: When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the ambitious. But it was also becoming a city of greed, where both life's consolations and its necessities were increasingly going to the highest bidder. At the Strangers' Gate builds a portrait of this /5(2). · At the Strangers’ Gate: Arrivals in New York by Adam Gopnik – review. The New Yorker writer’s stylish memoir, via Häagen-Dazs, Nietzsche and Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.
Author/Creator: Gopnik, Adam, author. Publication: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Format/Description: Book pages ; 25 cm Edition: First edition. Status/Location. When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, first arrived in , New York City was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the ambitious. But it was also becoming a place where both life's consolations and its necessities were increasingly going to the highest bidder. At the Strangers' Gate. Remember to clear the cache and close the browser window. Classic Catalog | Contact Us; Search Limit.
However, Gopnik retains an appealing modesty throughout and has some very entertaining stories to tell, including one about an invasion of rats in their loft (some foul secrets of the city, he learns, lie below). Not exactly a Horatio Alger story but an engaging tale of a writer finding his way in work and life. Pub Date: Sept. 5th, By Vivian Gornick. Sept. 29, AT THE STRANGERS’ GATE. Arrivals in New York. By Adam Gopnik. pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $ There are writers who, given even as small an amount of time as. In “At the Strangers’ Gate,” Gopnik — a superb prose stylist who has won three National Magazine Awards — looks back at the s, his first decade in New York City.
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