Title: Reading New York
Description: Part biography, part memoir, part belles lettres--this wonderful book celebrates the act of reading, the writers whose work awakened the soul of a young man growing up in New York in the 1940s and 1950s, and the history of the city itself.
Subjects: Refugee children, Intellectual life, History and criticism, American literature, American Authors, Childhood and youth, Books and reading, Homes and haunts, In literature, English teachers, Biography