Adam Gopnik, Author . Hyperion/Miramax $19.95 (412p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1862-4
Gopnik's (Paris to the Moon
, for adults) first offering for young readers is ambitious, complex and overly long. Oliver Parker, 11, an American boy in Paris, is vaguely unhappy. His father, a correspondent for a New York newspaper, is...
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Adam Gopnik, Author . Knopf $25 (318p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4181-7
Back from living in Paris with his wife and two kids, as chronicled charmingly in Paris to the Moon
, Gopnik, a writer for the New Yorker
, records in his tidy, writerly and obsessive fashion his family's relocation to the city of his earliest...
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Adam Gopnik, Author . Knopf $24.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-307-27078-8
In the year of Darwin’s and Lincoln’s bicentennial, New Yorker
contributor Gopnik (Through the Children’s Gate
) can’t resist the temptation to find parallels of cultural impact between the men, born on the same day in 1809,
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Adam Gopnik, Author Random House Inc $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-679-44492-3
In this collection of 23 essays and journal entries, many of which were originally published in the New Yorker, Gopnik chronicles the time he spent in Paris between 1995 and 2000. Although his subjects are broadDglobal capitalism, American economic...
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Adam Gopnik. Knopf, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4180-0
Gopnik (Paris to the Moon) moves masterfully between humorous, poignant minutiae of private experience and a macro view of New York City throughout the 1980s. Starting with his wide-eyed move to the city at the start of the decade, Gopnik makes...
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Adam Gopnik, Author, Adam Gopnik, Read by , read by the author. HighBridge $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56511-491-3
With his wife and infant son, New Yorker
writer Gopnik finds an apartment and settles into the City of Light as a foreign correspondent. Setting aside its frustratingly tangled bureaucracy, he embraces Paris unconditionally. Nuances and subtleties&#
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Adam Gopnik, illus. by Bruce McCall, Disney-Hyperion, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1213-6
Rose is adopted and suffers from a speech impediment (she reverses initial consonants), diagnosed as trauma from her years in a Russian orphanage. Strolling through Central Park, she sees a crystal staircase arising out of the turtle pond that leads
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Adam Gopnik. Basic, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-1-5416-9936-6
According to this militantly nonfanatical treatise, liberalism is the self-doubting creed of cautious, compromising, incremental reform—and that’s why it’s great. New Yorker essayist Gopnik (Paris to the Moon) grounds liberalism not in arid...
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Adam Gopnik. Liveright, $17.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-324094-85-2
Happiness is found not in “something gained but in something lost—the loss of ourselves in something ‘other,’ ” according to this concise and elegant meditation from New Yorker staff writer Gopnik (The Real Work). In his view, happiness arises from “
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