Paul Goodman described himself once as 'an orphan who had had a home.' His father abandoned the family while Paul was still an infant. His older brother set out early on his own, and his mother, 'a bourgeois gypsy,' was often away. He was cared for—through even his years in college—by his sister Alice, almost ten years his senior. The first book of The Empire City is dedicated to her.
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