City Readers Digital Historic Collections at the New York Society Library
A Walker In the City
Alfred Kazin (1915-1998)
A Walker In the City
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951
A Walker In the City
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951
Kazin’s intense re-entering of his Brownsville childhood as the first American-born of an immigrant family evokes my mother’s own early years on Thatford Avenue, and the immigrant experience of feeling outside “America.”
Evelyn Friedman (member)