Books Tell You Why, Inc.

A first printing of the first edition in Nearly Fine condition with some soiling to the black boards, housed in a Fine dust-jacket that has a small amount of adhesive residue on the upper front corner.

In 1963, New York City photographer Robert Mapplethorpe shoots a series of pictures of the city's gay underworld. Forty years later, in 2003, journalist John Berendt sets out to discover the story behind these photographs. He travels to New York and meets Mapplethorpe's friends, lovers, and dealers, many of whom are now dead. Berendt pieces together a complex, often tragic story of the city's marginalized population and its fraught relationship with the mainstream.

Featuring a wealth of new information, The City of Falling Angels is a brilliantly written and compulsively readable exploration of one of the most polarizing periods in New York City's history.; 8vo; 414 pages; MR.

Price: $60.00