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Brooklyn : a personal memoir : with the lost photographs of David Attie

Title: Brooklyn : a personal memoir : with the lost photographs of David Attie / by Truman Capote ; photographs by David Attie ; introduction by George Plimpton ; afterword by Eli Attie.
Author: Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.
Publication: New York : The Little Bookroom, [2015]

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Additional Authors

Attie, David.

Description

105 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"In 2001, The Little Bookroom published Truman Capote's long-out-of-print homage to Brooklyn, A House in the Heights. In 2014, more than fifty years after they were taken, the original photographs commissioned to illustrate the piece have been discovered by the photographer's son. Also found among the negatives were portraits of Capote taken on that same day; none of the photos have ever been published. Now, in a new edition with a new title, Brooklyn : A Personal Memoir, with the lost photographs of David Attie, the words and images will be united for the first time. The images of Brooklyn provide a stunning and atmospheric visual portrait of the city in 1959--its building, shops, street life, lost moments-- a Brooklyn at once strangely familiar yet largely vanished: horse-drawn wagons delivering produce to housewives, kids swimming in the East River and getting into mischief on the docks, dimly-lit bars, vintage signs, little girls jumping rope, bricklayers, barbers, neighborhood characters, all set against a backdrop of period architecture, that spectacular bridge, and the skyline of Manhattan. The essay itself brings to life the landscape that was for the author a world of grand homes and dimly recalled gentility, of mysterious warehouses and menacing street thugs, a garden overhung with wisteria, and the famous Promenade and waterfront--all rendered in his deft and stylish prose. Originally commissioned for Holiday magazine by John Knowles (later the author of A Separate Peace), the piece remained one of his favorites--especially its surprise ending. At the time, George Plimpton wrote that in the essay, Capote's 'love of history, gossip, character, and a skill at putting all this to words...brings Brooklyn Heights to life as vividly as any landscape Truman ever undertook to survey.' David Attie's photos enhance that landscape in a breathtaking way"--

Uniform Title

Brooklyn Heights

Alternative Title

Brooklyn Heights

Subject

Genre/Form

Biography.
Pictorial works.

Call Number

JFD 16-889

ISBN

9781936941117 (hardback : alkaline paper)
1936941112 (hardback : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2015017904

OCLC

911920674

Author

Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.

Title

Brooklyn : a personal memoir : with the lost photographs of David Attie / by Truman Capote ; photographs by David Attie ; introduction by George Plimpton ; afterword by Eli Attie.

Publisher

New York : The Little Bookroom, [2015]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

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Chronological Term

1900 - 1999

Added Author

Attie, David.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-889

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