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."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Bookroom
ISBN-10
1892145243
ISBN-13
9781892145246
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2011280
Product Key Features
Book Title
House on the Heights
Author
Truman Capote
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Special Interest / Literary, Personal Memoirs, Literary, American / General, Customs & Traditions, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa)
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Literary Criticism, Social Science