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Book cover image of A Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin

Authors: Alfred Kazin, Marvin Bileck
ISBN-13: 9780156941761, ISBN-10: 0156941767
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing
Date Published: March 1969
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Alfred Kazin

Book Synopsis

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. Drawings by Marvin Bileck.

Brendan Gill, The New Yorker - Gill

Singular and beautiful.it is a small book and an immense achievement.

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