A WALKER IN THE CITY

by Alfred Kazin ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 29, 1951

A street scene which derives from a boyhood in Brownsville, in Brooklyn, and which- in its succession of sequences- radiates from a slum settlement of Jewish immigrants to the far bourns of ""the city"" beyond, from the tradition and solidarity and insulation of the foreign born to the quest for the ""great world that was anything just out of Brownsville"". Here, with a sensuous, sensory responsiveness, is a return to the streets where old clothesmen, forgotten fiddlers, and Blumka, the madwoman, walked; to his school- and the agony of stammering; to the moviehouse and synagogue; to his mother's itchen--the heart of the home; to the exaltation of discovery in reading, and the idening worlds of literature and music and religion, etc. etc. A sensitive, suggestive extension of time and place which fuses past and present, alien and American, through he inquiring, observant notations of a young man's walks in the city.

Pub Date: Oct. 29, 1951

ISBN: 0156941767

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1951

Categories: NONFICTION