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A walker in the city
Alfred Kazin
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An edition of The walker and the city (1951)

A walker in the city

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The acclaimed story of a soul awakening to the ecstasy of the senses, the power of language, and the meaning of existence. 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 end of the subway in Manhattan. A classic portrayal of the Jewish immigrant culture of the 1930s.

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Victor Gollancz
Language
English
Pages
159

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Subjects
Critics, Jews, Biography, Description and travel, Jews, united states, biography, Jews, united states, social conditions, New york (n.y.), social conditions
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Alfred Kazin (1915-1998)

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The Walker and the City
2010, ACA-M
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Walker in the City
August 1997, MJF Books
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A Walker in the City
March 19, 1969, Harvest Books
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A walker in the city.
1958, Grove Press
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A walker in the city
1952, Victor Gollancz
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A walker in the city.
1951, Harcourt, Brace
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A walker in the city.: Drawings by Marvin Bileck.
1951, Harcourt, Brace & World
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London

Edition Notes

Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818.5
Library of Congress
PN75.K3 A3 1952

The Physical Object

Pagination
159 p., [1] leaf of plates :
Number of pages
159

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6139752M
LCCN
53018408
OCLC/WorldCat
20518632

First Sentence

"EVERY TIME I go back to Brownsville it is as if I had never been away."

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