Adam Gopnik




Adam Gopnik

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avg rating: 3.70 | 1546 ratings | 20 distinct works
Paris to the Moon Paris to the Moon (Paperback)
by Adam Gopnik
avg rating 3.70 — 1166 ratings — published 2001
11 editions
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Through the Children's Gate: A... Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York (Hardcover)
by Adam Gopnik
avg rating 3.62 — 204 ratings — published 2006
6 editions
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The King in the Window The King in the Window (Paperback)
by Adam Gopnik
avg rating 3.51 — 67 ratings — published 2006
2 editions
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Americans in Paris: A Literary... Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (Hardcover)
by Adam Gopnik
avg rating 3.76 — 17 ratings — published 2004
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Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Re... Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective (Hardcover)
by Steven A. Nash, Adam Gopnik
avg rating 4.40 — 10 ratings — published 2000
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Here and There Here and There (Hardcover)
by Adam Gopnik
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published 2004
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Joel Sternfeld: Walking the Hi... Joel Sternfeld: Walking the High Line (Hardcover)
by Joel Sternfeld, Adam Gopnik
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2002
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Evidence 1944 - 1994 Evidence 1944 - 1994 (Gebundene Ausgabe)
by Richard Avedon, Jane Livingston, Adam Gopnik
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1994
2 editions
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Lacombe: Cinema/theater Lacombe: Cinema/theater (Paperback)
by Adam Gopnik
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2006
2 editions
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High and Low. Moderne Kunst un... High and Low. Moderne Kunst und Trivialkultur (Gebundene Ausgabe)
by Kirk Varnedoe, Adam Gopnik
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2000
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quotes by Adam Gopnik

"Americans long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World"
Adam Gopnik (Paris to the Moon)
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"History is not an agreed-upon fiction but what gets made in a crowded room; what is said isn't what's heard, and what's heard isn't what gets repeated. Civilization is an agreement to keep people from shouting 'Fire!' in a crowded theater, but the moments we call historical occur when there is a fire in a crowded theater; and then we all try to remember afterward when we heard it, and if we ever really smelled smoke, and who went first and what they said. The indeterminancy is built into the emotion of the moment. The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping and the room was full."
Adam Gopnik
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"Whatever our official pieties, deep down we all believe in lives. The sternest formalists are the loudest gossips, and if you ask a cultural-studies maven who believes in nothing but collective forces and class determinisms how she came to believe in this doctrine, she will begin to tell you, eagerly, the story of her life."
Adam Gopnik
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