Manhattan, when I was Young

Manhattan, when I was Young
ISBN-10
1860498612
ISBN-13
9781860498619
Category
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Pages
241
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Virago Press
Author
Mary Cantwell

Description

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.

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