Mary Cantwell arrived in Manhattan one summer in the early 1950s with $80, a portable typewriter, a wardrobe of unsuitable clothes, and a boyfriend she was worried might be involved with Communists. With no idea of how to live on her own, she moved to the Village - because she had heard of it - and worked at 'Mademoiselle' - because that's where the employment agency sent her.
'Manhattan, When I Was Young' is a lyrical and fiercely honest account of one woman's life in New York City in the '50s and '60s and an unforgettable journey into the heart of the person she became there.
