a point of view
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Bright Lights big city
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Christmas present
clive james
cultural essays
David Remnick
David Sedaris
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father's day present
father’s day present
Jay McInerney
john updike
just kids
Malcolm Gladwell
Michael Frayn
New York
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nigella Lawson
paris to the moon
patti smith
Radio 4
table comes first
tom hanks
will self
winter
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Product details
- ISBN 9781847243249
- Weight: 258g
- Dimensions: 147 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jan 2008
- Publisher: Quercus Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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On every page of this delicious book you will meet characters and situations that tell you this could only be New York. The parents who are determined to get their children literally to fly at the school production of Peter Pan - the Cambodian cashier at the local deli who is more Jewish than Gopnik's grandfather - his gloriously peculiar analyst who argues that a name can be damaging to the human psyche, saying Adam's name is very ugly - the birder who takes Adam to see the huge flock of feral parrots that have taken over Flatbush. No one knows how they got there or how they survive the brutal winters, but they do. And flourish on it. 'These birds are so bold. They are real New Yorkers. They have so much attitude'. Through the Children's Gate is written with Gopnik's signature mix of mind and heart, elegantly and exultantly alert to the minute miracles that bring a place to life.
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 Criticism, and the George Polk Award for magazine reporting. From 1995 to 2000 he lived in Paris; he now lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.
