Song of the Closing Doors: Poems Mystery_Gift_Guide was the last novel by

was the last novel by Walter Kempowski

A “Best Book of the Year” from: The New York Times ● Publishers Weekly ● Kirkus Reviews ● Booklist ● Jewish Journal ● Horn Book ● Chicago Public Library

rediscovers the peace and power of the sport

they are uncommonly set in their ways

Peeling away the myth to bring David to life in Second Iron Age Israel

Song of the Closing Doors: Poems Mystery_Gift_Guide was the last novel byFrom New York City subway encounters to memories of pickup basketball games on Fourth Street, a love letter to the past, and to all the relationships and memories our homeplaces hold, from the National Book Award finalist. I will consider a slice of pizza," opens Phillips's poem "Jubilate Civitas." "For rare among pleasures in Gotham, it is both exquisite and blessedly cheap." Thus, as throughout this collection, he celebrates a simple pleasure that