"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. [This book] 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 ...
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"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. [This book] 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"--
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Add this copy of At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York to cart. $2.88, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2017 by Knopf Publishing Group.
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Very Good in Near Fine jacket. Size: 5x1x9; Stated first, with no additional printings listed. Inscribed by Gopnik to a previous owner at the title page. Blue and white boards with silver spine titling, very good with bumped spine foot, lightly bumped spine head. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket near fine with only light shelf-wear. Pages bright, text unmarked.
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Near Fine. No Jacket as Issued. Book First Edition stated on verso of title page; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean, unread copy in collectible condition; please note that this copy is an uncorrected proof.
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Near Fine in VG+ jacket. Size: 9x5x1; Signed 1st edition, 1st printing, Knopf hardcover w/ DJ, 2017. Book is Near fine, w/ clean text, tight binding. DJ is VG+, w/ very light edge/shelf wear (no tears or chips). Signed by author (and inscribed to previous owner) on title page. Free delivery confirmation.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by Acclaimed Journalist, and Author Adam Gopnik, in person. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Audience: General/trade. A Fine, as New, copy in a Fine, as New, dust jacket; a tight copy, that was bought new, and never read. First Edition-First Printing. Signed and dated, on the Title page, by Acclaimed Journalist, and Author Adam Gopnik, in person, during the 2017 New Yorker Festival on October 7, 2017, in New York City. An event notice will be included. "At The Strangers' Gate" is a vivid memoir that captures the energy, ambition and romance of New York City in the 1980s, focusing on the art and artists, love and apartments, writing and speaking, and the city that Author Adam Gopnik loves. This work is an engaging tale of a writer finding his way in work and life in the big city. Rest assured, this collectible copy is well protected in an archival Mylar cover; and will be very carefully packaged with protective material; and will be shipped in a new box. We always treat all of our books, and book buyers with the utmost respect.
