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Paris to the Moon
Random House Publishing Group 2001; US$ 16.00Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans. In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York... more...
Angels and Ages
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.00In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of man?s place in the world. Here Gopnik reveals these two men as they really were: family... more...
Through the Children's Gate
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 14.95Not long after Adam Gopnik returned to New York at the end of 2000 with his wife and two small children, they witnessed one of the great and tragic events of the city?s history. In his sketches and glimpses of people and places, Gopnik builds a portrait of our altered New York: the changes in manners, the way children are raised, our plans for and... more...
Through the Children's Gate
Knopf Canada 2010; US$ 21.00Following Adam Gopnik?s best-selling Paris to the Moon , the adventure continues against the panorama of another storied city. Autumn, 2000: the Gopnik family moves back to a New York that seems, at first, safer and shinier than ever. Here are the triumphs and travails of father, mother, son and daughter; and of the teachers, coaches, therapists,... more...
The Steps Across the Water
Doubleday Canada 2010; US$ 21.95In a masterful new fantasy evocative of Alice in Wonderland , New York Times bestselling author Adam Gopnik explores the powerful themes of identity and the meaning of home, with stunning illustrations from renowned New Yorker artist Bruce McCall. Ten-year-old Rose lives in New York, the city of bright lights and excitement, where extraordinary... more...
Angels and Ages
Quercus 2010; US$ 12.99Adam Gopnik shows that the abolition of slavery and the publication of the Origin of Species, which together created the modern world, share profound intellectual similarities. more...
The Table Comes First
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizing??You still eat meat?? With our top chefs as deities and finest restaurants as places of pilgrimage, we have made food the stuff of secular seeking and transcendence, finding heaven in a mouthful. But have we come any closer to... more...
Winter
House of Anansi Press 2011; US$ 16.95A taste for winter, a love of winter ? ?a mind for winter? ? is for many a part of the modern human condition. International bestselling author Adam Gopnik does for this storied season what he did for the City of Light in the New York Times bestseller Paris to the Moon . Here he tells the story of winter in five parts: Romantic Winter, Radical Winter,... more...
The Table Comes First
Quercus 2011; US$ 27.99One of the finest essayists of the age takes us on an entertaining journey through just what it means for food to be 'good'. more...
Paris to the Moon: Family in France
Quercus 2011; US$ 12.99Adam Gopnik chronicles Paris - the couture, cuisine, children's carousels, the fax machines that refuse to function and his struggle to buy a Thanksgiving turkey - with his elegant style of wit and insight. more...









