01953cam a2200301 i 4500 254068943 TxAuBib 20160101120000.0 130913s2014||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2013036162 9781611739749 Library binding : alk. paper 1611739748 Library binding : alk. paper TxAuBib rda Rosenblatt, Roger. The boy detective [text (large print)] : a New York childhood / Roger Rosenblatt. Center Point Large Print edition. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, [2014] 285 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A story of the author's childhood in New York City. "Resisting the deadening silence of his family home in the elegant yet stiflingly safe neighborhood of Gramercy Park, nine-year-old Roger imagines himself a private eye in pursuit of criminals. With the dreamlike mystery of the city before him, he sets off alone, out into the streets of Manhattan, thrilling to a life of unsolved cases. Six decades later, Rosenblatt finds himself again patrolling the territory of his youth: The writing class he teaches has just wrapped up, releasing him into the winter night and the very neighborhood in which he grew up. A grown man now, he investigates his own life and the life of the city as he walks, exploring the New York of the 1950s; the lives of the writers who walked these streets before him, such as Poe and Melville; the great detectives of fiction and the essence of detective work; and the monuments of his childhood, such as the New York Public Library. 20160101. Rosenblatt, Roger. Authors, American Biography. Journalists United States Biography. Large type books.