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At the Strangers' Gate
Adam Gopnik
其他書名
Arrivals in New York
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2017-09-05
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers
Literary Criticism / Books & Reading
ISBN
1101947500
9781101947500
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kp2yDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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, first arrived in 1980, 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
is a vivid portrait of this time, told through the story of one couple’s journey—from their excited arrival as aspiring artists to their eventual growth into a New York family. Through a series of comic mini-anthropologies that capture the fashion, publishing, and art worlds of the era, Adam Gopnik transports us from his tiny basement room on the Upper East Side to a SoHo loft, from his time as a graduate student-cum-library-clerk to the galleries of MoMA. Filled with tender and humorous reminiscences—including affectionate reflections on Richard Avedon, Robert Hughes, and Jeff Koons, among many others—
At the Strangers’ Gate
is an ode to New York striving.