Kazin’s memorable description of his life as a young man as he makes the journey from Brooklyn to “americanca”-the larger world that begins at the other. On his walks about and out from Brownsville, where his parents settled after escaping (unlike most of their relatives) from the Holocaust years in Europe to the Brooklyn neighborhoods beyond and to "the city" (as Manhattan was also known to those of us growing up in Queens), Kazin shares the sights, sounds, smells, experiences, and thoughts of his days/5(79). A Walker in the City is the autobiography of American Jewish author Alfred Kazin. A survivor of some of the most trying moments of the Great Depression, Kazin writes primarily about his time growing up in a small suburb during those years, and his youth before the Great Depression hit.
A Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less: $ 7. SecondSale via United States: Softcover, ISBN Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Used - Good. Item in good condition and has highlighting/writing on text. Used texts may not. In the s, Alfred Kazin () revisited his Brooklyn childhood in the short yet elegant memoir, A WALKER IN THE CITY. It is a stunning literary work, with the added bonus of getting a rare close-up view of a particular culture in a particular time and place that might otherwise be lost in oblivion. Decem am. When the Big City Book Club reconvenes for its next online literary discussion on Jan. 10, we will be talking about Alfred Kazin's "A Walker in the City," the writer's memoir of growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The book is a celebration of Mr. Kazin's poor immigrant childhood in the pushcart.
On his walks about and out from Brownsville, where his parents settled after escaping (unlike most of their relatives) from the Holocaust years in Europe to the Brooklyn neighborhoods beyond and to "the city" (as Manhattan was also known to those of us growing up in Queens), Kazin shares the sights, sounds, smells, experiences, and thoughts of his days. With those organizing and unifying devices, Kazin is able to communicate fully the bewilderingly contradictory themes of A Walker in the City, an angry yet loving memoir, in the form of a prose. A WALKER IN THE CITY, is a kind of sensory tour Kazin's childhood in Brownsville, NYC. It begins, "Every time I go back to Brownsville it is as if I had never been away. From the moment I step off the train at Rockaway Avenue and smell the leak out of the men's room, then the pickles from the stand just below the subway steps, an instant rage comes over me, mixed with dread and some unexpected tenderness.
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