Short stories by a retired professor of art history, touching on family life and growing up during the Great Depression; his meeting and courtship with his late wife, a refugee from Hitler's Europe; and his continuing activities in art criticism and collecting in modern-day New York. Heartfelt and real, Gould's stories embody the wisdom of the Greatest Generation and introduce us all, even native New Yorkers, to treasures of the city that few people ever explore.
Short stories by a retired professor of art history, touching on family life and growing up during the Great Depression; his meeting and courtship with his late wife, a refugee from Hitler's Europe; and his continuing activities in art criticism and collecting in modern-day New York. Heartfelt and real, Gould's stories embody the wisdom of the Greatest Generation and introduce us all, even native New Yorkers, to treasures of the city that few people ever explore.