1185 Park Avenue
Subtitle: A Memoir
Edition: 1st Touchstone Ed edition
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: May 2, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780684857329
Subjects: Biography: general; Parental Memoirs; Jewish families; Biography / Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Novelists, American; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Literary; Women; Biography & Autobiography / Women; 20th century; Biography; Family relationships; New York; New York (State)
First sentence: Later when we would drive in from our country house along Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx or out to visit a friend on Long Island and we'd drive through Queens, after tunnels or bridges, after streets of warehouse and factories smelling of glues and yeast, we'd pass the small two-family attached houses that lined the road before the city would slide into suburb.