Following Adam Gopnik's best-selling Paris to the Moon, the adventure continues against the panorama of another storied city. Autumn, 2000: the Gopnik family moves back to a New York that seems, at first, safer and shinier than ever. Here are the triumphs and travails of father, mother, son and daughter; and of the teachers, coaches, therapists, adversaries and friends who round out the extended urban family. From Bluie, a goldfish fated to meet a Hitchcockian end, to Charlie Ravioli, an imaginary playmate who, being a New ...
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Following Adam Gopnik's best-selling Paris to the Moon, the adventure continues against the panorama of another storied city. Autumn, 2000: the Gopnik family moves back to a New York that seems, at first, safer and shinier than ever. Here are the triumphs and travails of father, mother, son and daughter; and of the teachers, coaches, therapists, adversaries and friends who round out the extended urban family. From Bluie, a goldfish fated to meet a Hitchcockian end, to Charlie Ravioli, an imaginary playmate who, being a New Yorker, is too busy to play, Gopnik's New York is charmed by the civilization of childhood. It is a fabric of living, which, though rent by the events of 9/11, will reweave itself, reviving a world where Jewish jokes mingle with debates about the problem of consciousness, the price of real estate and the meaning of modern art. By turns elegant and exultant, written with a signature mix of mind and heart, Through the Children's Gate is at once a celebration of a newly fragile city and a poignant study of a family trying to find its way, and joy, within it.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0676978266. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Minor shelf wear.; 9.4 X 5.6 X 1.1 inches; 336 pages.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0676978266. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery.; 5.81 X 1.26 X 9.5 inches; 336 pages.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0676978266. Inscribed by author on title page. Minor rubbing to d/j. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery.; 9.399999990412000 X 5.599999994288000 X 1.099999998878000 inches; 336 pages; Signed by Author.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo., 318pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Perhaps a hint of a bump at the heel but very minor. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($34.95), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy.