# Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn

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- Book: [Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn](https://www.bookquiver.com/harvey-swados/nights-in-the-gardens-of-brooklyn) ([Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/harvey-swados/nights-in-the-gardens-of-brooklyn.md))
- Authors: [Harvey Swados](https://www.bookquiver.com/harvey-swados), [Grace Paley](https://www.bookquiver.com/grace-paley)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-084-7
- Pages: 432
- Published: 2004-05-31
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

There was a time when New York was everything to me: my mother, my mistress, my Mecca, when I could no more have wanted to live any place else than I could have conceived of myself as a daddy, disciplining...