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Title: A Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin ISBN: 0156941767 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: June, 1969 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: a wakling god
Comment: This book without a doubt is the best book I have read ever.
Its clear and simple english make it a breath of freshair
to read.
Lets just look at one sentence:
"Everytime I go back to brownsville its as if I had never
been away"
Rating: 5
Summary: A demanding read that rewards the effort
Comment: One of the most respected literary critics this country has produced, Kazin made a significant contribution to the literature of the American immigrant with "Walker in the City." This demanding autobiography of his youth in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn vividly recreates the life of pre-Depression and Depression Jews for whom Manhattan, though just miles away, represented a faraway land filled with mystery and fear.
It is the world outside of Brownsville that looms over the book and the spirit of its narrator. Kazin successfully captures the yearning for new experiences that filled his heart as he grew up in the streets. It was that yearning that led him to the public library and ultimately across the bridges and out of the Brooklyn borough. It was also that yearning that made him wonder about a world that was not filled with Jews.
The mystery of the lands that lay beyond Brownsville's streets fills the book with a sense of tension. We can almost feel the young Kazin's heart burst as he begins to sense the vastness of the world. "Beyond! Beyond!" the narrator shouts, and prose turns into poetry in many passages of the book as he seeks to express the mixture of fear and exhiliration stirring within him.
One chapter, "The Kitchen," has been frequently anthologized, and rightfully so. It is a meditation on the room in which his mother spent much of her time working on the sewing she took in to make extra money. In the end, his mother's constant pounding on the foot treadle of the sewing machine comes to the author to represent the fire burning within her -- to achieve, to make a better life for her son, to survive in a strange new land where this exiled Jewish woman is once again a stranger.
This is a great book that deserves a vast readership. Though not a novel, it takes its place next to "The Rise of David Levinsky" and "Call It Sleep" as a masterpiece of immigrant and Jewish/American literature.
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Title: New York Jew by Alfred Kazin ISBN: 0815604130 Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Trade) Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown ISBN: 0684864185 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Magic Barrel: Stories by Bernard Malamud ISBN: 0374525862 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Lives on the Boundary by Mike Rose ISBN: 0140124039 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Inventing the Truth : The Art and Craft of Memoir by William Zinsser ISBN: 0395901502 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 20 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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