{"product_id":"9780547728261","title":"Manhattan, When I Was Young: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eA “wonderful memoir” of a woman’s life as a fashion-magazine writer in 1950s and ’60s New York (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mary Cantwell arrived in Manhattan one summer in the early 1950s with eighty dollars, a portable typewriter, a wardrobe of unsuitable clothes, a copy of \u003ci\u003eThe Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eMademoiselle \u003c\/i\u003ebecause that was where the employment agency sent her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this evocative and unflinching book, Cantwell recalls the city she knew back then by revisiting five apartments in which she lived. Her memoir vividly recreates both a particular golden era in New York City and the sometimes painful, sometimes exhilarating process of forging a self.","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123999752432,"sku":"9780547728261","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547728261_p0.jpg?v=1769896513","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547728261","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}