Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York

Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York
- Red hardcover, Jacket with winter scene of running children.
- 5 x 10 inches 318 pages
Following the best-selling Paris to the Moon, the continuation of the Gopniksâ€™ adventures against the panorama of a different though no less storied city as they attempt to make a new home for themselves.

Autumn 2000: After five years in Paris, Adam Gopnik moves his family back to a New York that seems, at first, safer and shinier than ever. Here in the wondrously strange â€œneighborhoodâ€ of Manhattan we observe 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, the Gopniksâ€™ new home is under the spell of the sort of characters only the cityâ€™s unique civilization of childhood could produce.

Not long after their return, the fabric of living will be rent by the events of 9/11, but like a magic garment will reweave itself, reviving normalcy in a world where Jewish jokes mingle with debates about the problem of consciousness, the price of real estate, and the meaning of modern art. Along the way, the impermanence and transcendence of life will be embodied in the person of a beloved teacher and coach who, even facing death, radiates a distinctively local light.

Written with Gopnikâ€™s signature mix of mind and heart, elegant and exultantly alert to the minute miracles that bring a place to life, Through the Childrenâ€™s Gate is a chronicle, by turns tender and hilarious, of a family taking root in the unlikeliest patch of earth.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2006-10-10
EANs 9781400041817

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2006-10-10
EANs	9781400041817

Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York

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