Consider this:
"Retrieved from a dumpster on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a discarded diary brings to life the glamorous, forgotten world of an extraordinary young woman."
And does it ever!
It seems that New York Times reporter, Lily Koppel, ventured out to the alley behind her apartment building and there she saw a mass of very very old trunks in the dumpster. The apartment manager had decided to clear out those same trunks, left behind years ago by former tenents, from the basement.
In one, Koppel discovered the 5-year diary of one Florence Wolfson that covered the years from 1929-1934...Wolfson's life from the time she was 13 through her 18th year. Koppel also found Wolfson, now 90 years old, and ended up writing a book based on that diary. The book is entitled, "The Red Leather Diary", and it is something very special indeed.
To read that book, one is immersed in those times and those places completely and totally. I've not read a book before that so thoroughly puts a reader back in a time period we think we know about. Not hardly. "The Red Leather Diary" is a revelation of what it was really like, not what one thought it was like. Nowhere near. Reading this book, one is there and nowhere else. The present day ceases to exist entirely.
Koppel is one hell of a fine writer, and no booklover is going to want to miss this one when it hits those bookstore shelves.
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