At the strangers' gate : arrivals in New York

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Label

At the strangers' gate : arrivals in New York

Title remainder

arrivals in New York

Statement of responsibility

Adam Gopnik

Creator

• Gopnik, Adam

Author

• Gopnik, Adam

Subject

• Gopnik, Adam -- Family
• Gopnik, Adam -- Friends and associates
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers
• New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
• New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"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, 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. At the Stranger's Gate 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. 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"--

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

974.7/1042

Index

no index present

LC call number

F128.55

LC item number

.G669 2017

Literary form

non fiction