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

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Label

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

Title remainder

a personal memoir : with the lost photographs of David Attie

Statement of responsibility

Truman Capote ; photographs by David Attie ; introduction by George Plimpton ; afterword by Eli Attie

Creator

• Capote, Truman, 1924-1984

Contributor

• Attie, David

Subject

• Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
• Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
• Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.) -- Pictorial works
• Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• Capote, Truman, 1924-1984 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) | New York
• New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
• New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
• New York (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works
• New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography

Genre

• Pictorial works
• Biography

Language

eng

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"--

Related

• Brooklyn Heights

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 813/.54
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3505.A59

LC item number

Z469 2015

Literary form

non fiction