Screen LibraryThe red leather diary : reclaiming a life through the pages of a lost journal /
After finding a lost journal, the author meets its writer and, using excerpts from the journal, recreates the writer's privileged life as a teenager in 1930s Manhattan.
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| Published: |
Harper,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
2009. ©2008 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First Harper Perennial edition. |
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| Summary: |
After finding a lost journal, the author meets its writer and, using excerpts from the journal, recreates the writer's privileged life as a teenager in 1930s Manhattan. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 321, 14 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780061256783 0061256781 |
| Index Number: | CT275 |
| CLC: | I712.65 |
| Call Number: | I712.65/K836 |
| Contents: |
The discovery -- The diary -- Modern Mercury -- A portrait of the artist as a young woman -- The lavender Remington -- The American dream -- The snakeskin coat -- Eva le Gallienne -- My first love affair -- Spring Lake -- Pearl -- M -- Evelyn -- The circus -- The salon of Florence Wolfson -- The Italian count -- Private eye -- Speak, memory. |