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Through the children's gate : a home in New York

Summary: Describes the author's 2000 move from Paris back to New York with his family in a series of essays that profile the teachers, therapists, coaches, friends, adversaries, and others who make up their extended urban family.

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ISBN: 9780307369277 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0307369277 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2006.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Through the children's gate, of a home in New York -- A hazard of no fortune -- Man goes to see a doctor -- A Purim story -- First Thanksgiving: densities -- Power and the parrot -- That Sunday -- The city and the pillars -- Urban renewal -- Second Thanksgiving: intensities -- Bumping into Mr. Ravioli -- The cooking game -- Third Thanksgiving: bitterosities -- Under one roof -- Times regained -- The running fathers -- Fourth Thanksgiving: propensities -- Death of a fish -- Last of the metrozoids -- Last Thanksgiving: immensities.

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