Through the children's gate
Subtitle: a home in New York
By: Adam Gopnik
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781400041817
Subjects: Social life and customs; Homes and haunts; Description and travel; Family; Psychological aspects; Home; Biography
Description: Following Gopnik's 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.--From publisher description.