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A vivid memoir that captures the energy, ambition and romance of New York in the 1980s from the beloved  New Yorker  Canadian writer, to stand alongside his bestselling  Paris to the Moon  and  Through the Children's Gate . When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha Parker, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young and the arty and 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. At the Stranger's Gate builds a portrait of this moment in New York through the story of their journey—from their excited arrival as aspiring artists to their eventual growth into a New York family. Gopnik transports us to their tiny basement room on the Upper East Side—the smallest apartment in Manhattan—and later to SoHo, where he captures a unicorn: an affordable New York loft. Between tender, laugh-out-loud reminiscences, including affectionate portraits of New York luminaries from Richard Avedon to Robert Hughes and Jeff Koons, Gopnik takes us into the corridors of Condé Nast, the galleries of MoMA and many places b

Who reads At the Strangers' Gate : Arrivals in New York?

Author

Gopnik, Adam

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780676978285

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Criticism, Travel

Rating

4 / 5 (69 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14