At the Strangers' Gate

@2@@20@'A dazzling talent' Malcolm Gladwell@21@@3@@2@When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the ambitious. But it was also becoming a city of greed, where both life's consolations and its necessities were increasingly going to the highest bidder. @3@@2@@18@At the Strangers' Gate@19@ builds a portrait of this particular moment in New York through the story of this couple's journey--from their excited arrival as aspiring artists to their eventual growth into a New York family. Gopnik transports us to his tiny basement room on the Upper East Side, and later to SoHo, where he captures a unicorn: an affordable New York loft. He takes us through his professional meanderings, from graduate student-cum-library-clerk to the corridors of Conde Nast and the galleries of MoMA. @3@@2@Between tender and humorous reminiscences, including affectionate portraits of Richard Avedon, Robert Hughes, and Jeff Koons, among many others, Gopnik discusses the ethics of ambition, the economy of creative capital, and the peculiar anthropology of art and aspiration in New York, then and now.@3@

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Adam Gopnik
• Verlag: Riverrun
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781786489210
• ISBN: 978-1-78648-921-0
• Seiten: 272
• Abmessung: 165 mm x 199 mm x 20 mm
• Serie: Riverrun
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Biographien, Autobiographien; 1980 bis 1989 n. Chr., New York City, Memoiren, Berichte/Erinnerungen, achtziger Jahre, Englische Bücher / Biografie, Erinnerung, Erinnerung / Literatur, New York City / Erinnerung, Brief, Tagebuch, New Yorker; New York; paris to the moon; Jay McInerney; Bright Lights big city; just kids; patti smith; woody allen; table comes first; nigella Lawson; alain de botton; john updike; through the childrens gate; angels and ages; winter; radio 4; a poin