
At the Strangers' Gate
''A dazzling talent'' Malcolm Gladwell
When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the 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 Strangers'' Ga...
''A dazzling talent'' Malcolm Gladwell
When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the 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 Strangers'' Ga...