Manhattan, When I Was Young
Manhattan, When I Was Young
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Summary
* A poignant memoir of self-discovery during the 1950s in the most exciting city in the world * Written by a former editor of VOGUE
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Manhattan, When I Was Young by Mary Cantwell
Mary Cantwell arrived in Manhattan one summer in the early 1950s with $80, a portable typewriter, a wardrobe of unsuitable clothes, a copy of The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, a boyfriend she was worried might be involved with the Communists and no idea how to live on her own. She moved to the Village because she had heard of it and worked at Mademoiselle because that was where the employment agency sent her. In this evocative unflinching book Cantwell recalls the city she knew then by revisiting five apartments in which she lived. Her memoir vividly recreates both a particular Golden Era in New York and the sometimes painful, sometimes exhilarating process of forging a self.
Cantwell writes with breathless intensity * PEOPLE *
A spare, beautifully etched memoir * TIME 'Her courage as a wife and working mother has a life and inspiration all its own’ *
LOS ANGELES TIMES * 'By offering so rich a narrative, the author stokes a reader's hunger for ever more disclosure and intimacy … in the days when New York stood for all that was adult, and when being an adult actually looked like everything desirable’ *
NEW YORK TIMES
A spare, beautifully etched memoir * TIME 'Her courage as a wife and working mother has a life and inspiration all its own’ *
LOS ANGELES TIMES * 'By offering so rich a narrative, the author stokes a reader's hunger for ever more disclosure and intimacy … in the days when New York stood for all that was adult, and when being an adult actually looked like everything desirable’ *
NEW YORK TIMES
Mary Cantwell was a member of the NEW YORK TIMES editorial board. She was also a writer and editor for MADEMOISELLE and VOGUE. She died in 2000.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781860498619 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860498612 |
| Title | Manhattan, When I Was Young |
| Author | Mary Cantwell |
| Series | Virago Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2001-10-04 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |