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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"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 1980s. 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...
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Language
English
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The children's gate is an entrance to Central Park that leads to the playground. Gopnik explores that entrance in metaphor and experience as he recounts his family's return from Paris to New York-- a seemingly secure, almost oddly child-friendly New York-- in the fall of 2000. Gopnik describes not a city but an extended urban family, and a home charmed by the civilization of childhood.
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