Further Details

Title: The Red Leather Diary
Condition: New
Subtitle: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal
Author: Lily Koppel
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0061256781
EAN: 9780061256783
ISBN: 9780061256783
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Genre: History
Topic: Biography
Release Date: 01/02/2009
Description: "A New York Times" journalist discovers a discarded old diary - a long-lost treasure that introduces her to an extraordinary woman and a glamourous, forgotten time. For decades it languished in an unclaimed trunk in the basement of a prewar building on Manhattan's Upper West Side, until it was tossed in a dumpster and recovered by journalist Lily Koppel. As she opened the diary's worn leather-bound cover, Koppel had no idea that she was about to embark on a wondrous journey back in time, to a lost New York in which women of privilege met for tea at Schrafft's, danced at the Hotel Pennsylvania, and toasted the night at El Morocco.Nor did she expect to be captivated by a headstrong and beautiful young woman who loved to play the piano, paint portraits and write poetry. Compelled by the hopes and dreams, drama and heartbreak captured in the diary's pages, Koppel set out to find it's original owner, the words, 'This book belongs to Florence Wolfson' the only clue. One day, a chance call by a private investigator leads Koppel to Wolfson, now 90 years old, living in Connecticut with her husband of 67 years.Wolfson is mesmerized by how well the diary had been preserved and the life she had almost forgotten filled with art, theater, salons and many lovers (chief among them Eva Le Gallienne and the son of an Italian count, Filippo Canaletti Gaudenti Da Sirola).
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 203mm
Item Length: 135mm
Item Width: 20mm
Item Weight: 272g
Release Year: 2009

Missing Information?

Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.