A Walker in the City

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Publication Year:
1969

ISBN-13: 9780547546360

<DIV><B>A literary icon&rsquo;s &ldquo;singular and beautiful&rdquo; memoir of growing up as a first-generation Jewish American in Brownsville, Brooklyn (<I>The New Yorker</I>).</B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> A classic portrait of immigrant life in the early decades of the twentieth century, <I>A Walker in the City</I> is a tour of tenements, subways, and synagogues&mdash;but also a universal story of the desires and fears we experience as we try to leave our small, familiar neighborhoods for something new.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> With vivid imagery and sensual detail&mdash;the smell of half-sour pickles, the dry rattle of newspapers, the women in their shapeless flowered housedresses&mdash;Alfred Kazin recounts his boyhood walks through this working-class community, and his eventual foray across the river to &ldquo;the city,&rdquo; the mysterious, compelling Manhattan, where treasures like the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum beckoned. Eventually, he would travel even farther, building a life around books and language and literature and exploring all that the world had to offer.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;The whole texture, color, and sound of life in this tenement realm&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. is revealed as tapestried, as dazzling, as full of lush and varied richness as an Arabian bazaar.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The New York Times</I></DIV>