At the Strangers' Gate【電子書籍】[ Adam Gopnik ]

＜p＞＜strong＞'A dazzling talent' Malcolm Gladwell＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞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.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞At the Strangers' Gate＜/em＞ 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.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Between tender and humorous reminiscences, including affec．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る