Customer Reviews

Once There Was a Village

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I learned of Kapralov's book by reading a book on the downtown scene called Down and In. Kapralov is a natural, and his prose is far more engaging than the self-consciously 'literary' types writing about similar situations. I highly recommend this book.

Addendum -- April 2005 -- Kapralov just died of alcoholism. Rest in peace, my friend. You did well.

This book is a REAL piece of New York City history. Set in the East Village in the late '60s, the artist/author's perspective is deeply beautiful and 100% engaging. Literature...history...New York...what more could I ask for?

Yuri wrote this great book titled "once there was a village" and it's one of my all time fav. books. It talks about the REAL NYC when you couldn't even walk a block in alphabet city without getting raped mugged or killed. He lived in the neighborhood back then in the 60's-70's and so he knows all about the BS that went down firsthand. It was just great to read about all that and feel extremely lucky to be in the position that i am now no matter how bleak it can be at times.