{"product_id":"9780692638293","title":"At the Esplanade: Journal of Harold Davis 1996-2000","description":"Harold Davis was born over his father's saloon on the corner of Houston and Orchard Streets, New York City, on July 10, 1904. He was a practicing lawyer for more than 65 years.\u003cp\u003eAt the age of 91 he moved to a senior residence at The Esplanade, on West End Avenue in Manhattan. He began writing this Journal as a way to keep in touch with family and friends, and also, it is clear, as a way to come to grips with a radical change in his life: he was now, for the first time in a long life, alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt first he was appalled by what he saw as the physical ugliness of his elderly fellow-residents, but after a few weeks he had an epiphany of sorts and realized there was beauty, intellect and talent inside their time-ravaged shells. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe told stories in his Journal about\u003cbr\u003e• Selling hotdogs at the Dempsey-Carpentier fight in 1921.\u003cbr\u003e• Attending the Pickle Shul on Ludlow Street.\u003cbr\u003e• His wonderful, tiny teacher, Miss Murray, in 1-A and 1-B.\u003cbr\u003e• His mother and father.\u003cbr\u003e• Being told by the dean of admissions at NYU that they couldn't accept him because the 5% Jewish Quota had already been filled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Journal, then, is partly a lesson in aging, partly a family chronicle and partly a glimpse at one man's passage through the 20th Century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Old Orchard Street Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49791836586224,"sku":"9780692638293","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692638293","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}