Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York
by Gopnik, Adam
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 1847243045
- ISBN 13
- 9781847243041
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About This Item
Quercus, London, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 324 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. 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. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; United States; 2000's; Travel & Places. ISBN: 1847243045. ISBN/EAN: 9781847243041. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9849. . 9781847243041
Synopsis
Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of National Magazine Awards for Essays and for Criticism and winner of the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. Raised in Montreal, Gopnik lived in Paris from 1995 to 2000, and now lives in New York with his wife and their two children.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9849
- Title
- Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York
- Author
- Gopnik, Adam
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1847243045
- ISBN 13
- 9781847243041
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Biography: General, True Story Books, Family & Relationships Biography & Autobiography; United States; 2000's; Travel & Places. Unbranded ISBN: 1847243045 EAN: 9781847243041 Gopnik, Adam Through the Children's Gate: A Home in
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