Through the Childrens Gate, Adam Gopnik
Through the Childrens Gate, Adam Gopnik
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Through the Children's Gate
A Home in New York

Author: Adam Gopnik

Narrator: Adam Gopnik

Abridged: 9 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/25/2006


Synopsis

By turns elegant and exultant, jubilant and poignant, Through the Children's Gate is a loving portrait of a family and their city.

About Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1986. He has published many books including Paris to the Moon. He lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on May 30, 2016

I've heard a very good friend of mine use the term "dabbler" more than once. That term fits Adam Gopnik very well. He's a writer for The New Yorker and will seemingly write about anything that catches his attention or, possibly, that he's been assigned to write about. (Though he's been writing for t......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on February 12, 2009

This was also a library sale find. I find Gopnik's writing *dense* but also cant put him down. A classic New Yorker writer. There were a couple of laughs-out-loud and I enjoyed the chance to follow his children's, especially his son Luke's, growing up. And his own life lessons as well.......more

Goodreads review by Russell on October 10, 2012

J. P. Donleavy once wrote a hilarious novel titled A Fairy Tale of New York. Adam Gopnik's masterpiece could be just as aptly titled. He has, however, chosen a somewhat more prosaic title while letting the content of his non-fiction work read very much like the title of Donleavy's opus. While Gop......more

Goodreads review by Lucas on April 12, 2015

Gopnik is a liberal, humane essayist with the sensibilities of a stand-up comic (or is it the opposite?), and my enjoyment of his work cannot be overstated. A loveletter to New York City, sure, but more broadly a love letter to all cities, to the flowering of chaos and beauty that comes from the den......more

Goodreads review by Phoebe on September 20, 2022

(3.5) adam feels like a member of my family... sometimes his long-winded explanations and digressions really annoy me but at the end of the day he just gets it......more