Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New YorkNot long after Adam Gopnik returned to New York at the end of 2000 with his wife and two small children, they witnessed one of the great and tragic events of the city’s history. In his sketches and glimpses of people and places, Gopnik builds a portrait of our altered New York: the changes in manners, the way children are raised, our plans for and accounts of ourselves, and how life moves forward after tragedy. Rich with Gopnik’s signature charm, wit, and joie de vivre, here is the most under-examined corner of the romance of New York: our struggle to turn the glamorous metropolis that seduces us into the home we cannot imagine leaving. |
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... things and a city of signs, the place I actually am and the place I would like to be even when I am here. As a kid, I ... thing—streets and hot dogs and brusqueness—and its symbols, the lights across the way, the beckoning skyline, are ...
... things and a city of signs, the place I actually am and the place I would like to be even when I am here. As a kid, I ... thing—streets and hot dogs and brusqueness—and its symbols, the lights across the way, the beckoning skyline, are ...
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... thing, and here is a thing you have to do. Whatever the origins—and I leave it to some meatierminded cultural historian to trace them all—what child rearing is, when you live it, is a joy. It should be seen as we really do feel it—less ...
... thing, and here is a thing you have to do. Whatever the origins—and I leave it to some meatierminded cultural historian to trace them all—what child rearing is, when you live it, is a joy. It should be seen as we really do feel it—less ...
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... thing they will do is leave us. They have to renounce their attachment to us as the adept abandons his attachment to ... things—the literature of epiphanies received at the Museum of Natural History by now is larger than that of miracles ...
... thing they will do is leave us. They have to renounce their attachment to us as the adept abandons his attachment to ... things—the literature of epiphanies received at the Museum of Natural History by now is larger than that of miracles ...
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... thing about children is that they really are all alike—boom, here comes three and an imaginary friend; whoosh, there goes eleven and the first stirrings of passion—and all utterly unique. They are radically themselves and entirely of ...
... thing about children is that they really are all alike—boom, here comes three and an imaginary friend; whoosh, there goes eleven and the first stirrings of passion—and all utterly unique. They are radically themselves and entirely of ...
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... thing was to witness the recovery and to learn from it. Those of us who had walked in through the Children's Gate ... things at once, the minimal number necessary for life.) There isn't any heroism in carrying on, because there isn't any ...
... thing was to witness the recovery and to learn from it. Those of us who had walked in through the Children's Gate ... things at once, the minimal number necessary for life.) There isn't any heroism in carrying on, because there isn't any ...
Contents
Man Goes to See a Doctor | |
A Purim Story | |
Densities | |
Power and the Parrot | |
That Sunday | |
The City and the Pillars | |
The Cooking Game | |
Bitterosities | |
Under One Roof | |
Times Regained | |
The Running Fathers | |
Propensities | |
Death of a Fish | |
Last of the Metrozoids | |
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