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Nell’autunno del 2000, dopo aver trascorso cinque anni a Parigi come corrispondente, Adam Gopnik decide di tornare a New York in modo che i suoi figli, Olivia e Luke, possano crescere «nell’abbraccio dell’educazione progressista americana». Così, partendo dalla prima missione impossibile di metter su casa a Manhattan, compone una panoramica a 360 gradi della contemporaneità nella Grande Mela. Una carrellata di personaggi reali e fittizi, in un «antimemoir» del curioso mondo che circonda la famiglia Gopnik, un inedito spaccato della metropoli americana che, a fronte del drammatico 11 settembre, diventa un «inno alla speranza», in cui «le ombre sono tutto quello che abbiamo per mostrare a noi stessi le innumerevoli forme che la luce può creare».
- ISBN: 8823518482
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 400
- Data di uscita: 25-05-2017
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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 Leggi tutto
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.
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
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 Leggi tutto
(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
Oh Adam Gopnik. How in love I once was with you. How amazed I was with your facility to dig into layers of everyday life and come up with wise genius. How many times did I read aloud to friends your original New Yorker "Bumping Into Ravioli" essay? I still may be in love with you, but this book test Leggi tutto
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