Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Dec 10, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 336 pages
Not 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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Contents

Of a Home in New York
A Hazard of No Fortune
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

Urban Renewal
Intensities
Bumping into Mr Ravioli
Immensities
Permissions Acknowledgments
Copyright

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About the author (2008)

Author of the beloved best seller Paris to the Moon, Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Reviews and Criticism and of the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. He lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.

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