(H/B) BROOKLYN: A PERSONAL MEMOIR

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In 2001, Truman Capote's stylish essay in praise of Brooklyn was brought back into print, but not until 2014 - more than fifty years after they were taken - were the original photographs commissioned to illustrate the piece discovered by the late photographer's son. Also found among the negatives were previously unknown portraits of Capote; none of the photos have ever been published. Now, in a new edition with a new title, Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir, the words and images are united for the first time.
Beloved by literary figures from Walt Whitman to Thomas Wolfe, Brooklyn cast its spell over Truman Capote, too. For a few tranquil years in the Fifties and Sixties, he happily made his home on Willow Street, where he wrote the legendary essay "Brooklyn Heights, A Personal Memoir." In it, he vividly evokes the neighborhood he came to know well, bringing to life the landscape that was for him a world of grand homes and dimly recalled gentility, a garden overhung with wisteria, the famous Promenade, the sometimes menacing waterfront. This is his satisfying meander through a unique time and place.
David Attie's images provide a stunning and atmospheric parallel portrait of Brooklyn in 1959 - its buildings, shops, lost moments - a city at once strangely familiar yet largely vanished. Horse-drawn wagons deliver produce to housewives, kids swim unsupervised in the East River and get into mischief on the docks, and life plays out on stoops and streets against a backdrop of period architecture, the spectacular bridge, and the skyline of Manhattan. (From the publisher)