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A house on the heights / by Truman Capote ; with a new introduction by George Plimpton.
Van Pelt Library PS3505.A59 Z469 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capote, Truman, 1924-1984--Homes and haunts--New York (State)--New York.
- Capote, Truman.
- Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.
- Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
- Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.).
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 43 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little Bookroom, 2002.
- Summary:
- The tranquil life he led in the quiet enclave of Brooklyn Heights stood in sharp contrast to the glittering scene he adored on the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge, but for a few years in the 1950's and '60's, Truman Capote happily made his home in a yellow brick house on Willow Street. By turns wistful and farcical, "A House on the Heights" vividly evokes a neighborhood Capote described as among Brooklyn's "splendid contradictions," a world of grand homes and dimly recalled gentility, of mysterious warehouses and cartoonish street thugs, of antiques and dowagers, a broad yard overhung with wisteria, and the famous Esplanade with its incomparable view--all rendered in Capote's deft and stylish prose.
- ISBN:
- 1892145243
- OCLC:
- 47756090
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