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From New York Times best-selling writer of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker copy writer, a memoir that catches the love of NEW YORK in the 1980s. When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the conveniences of home in Montreal for New York, the location then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the ambitious. But it was also learning to be a city of greed, where both life's consolations and its own necessities were progressively more going to the best bidder. At the Strangers' Gate creates a portrait of the particular moment in New York through the story of the couple's quest - off their excited appearance as aspiring music artists with their eventual expansion into a New York family. Gopnik transports us to his very small basement room on top of the East Aspect, and later to SoHo, where he catches a unicorn: an inexpensive New York loft. He requires us through his professional meanderings, from graduate student-cum-library-clerk to the corridors of Condé Nast and the galleries of MoMA. Between sensitive and humorous reminiscences, including affectionate portraits of Richard Avedon, Robert Hughes, and Jeff Koons, among many others, Gopnik discusses the ethics of ambition, the current economic climate of creative capital, and the peculiar anthropology of skill and aspiration in New York, then and now.
