Truman Capote's masterpiece, IN COLD BLOOD, a sterling early example of the New Journalism, was part of an evolving genre that filtered events both big and small through the writer's own experiences and feelings. IN COLD BLOOD is the intensely researched story of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and the two men who brutally murdered them on ...
This volume includes three of Capote's best-known stories, "House of Flowers", "A Diamond Guitar", and "A Christmas Memory", in addition to his bestselling novel, Breakfast at Tiffany, the popular story of Holly Golightly--"a cross between Lolita and Auntie Mame" (Time).
Truman Capote's masterpiece, IN COLD BLOOD, a sterling early example of the New Journalism, was part of an evolving genre that filtered events both big and small through the writer's own experiences and feelings. IN COLD BLOOD is the intensely researched story of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and the two men who brutally murdered them on ...
A CHRISTMAS MEMORY is a fictional/autobiographical recollection of the author's boyhood in rural Alabama. Buddy, a seven-year-old orphan, happily prepares for the Christmas season by making fruitcakes with his eccentric cousin, Miss Sook.
At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the mansion in Skully's Landing, his father is nowhere is sight. What he finds instead is a sullen step-mother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel.
Starring its heroine, Holly Golightly, from the popular ">Breakfast at Tiffany's", this volume also contains three of Truman Capote's best-known short stories: "House of Flowers", "A Diamond Guitar", and "A Christmas Memory".
With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly Golightly is top notch in style and a sensation wherever she goes. Her brownstone apartment vibrates with martini-soaked parties as she plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate goal - to find a real life ...
Capote's posthumously published exposé of the high life in jet-setting Manhattan is narrated by P. B. Jones, a bisexual hustler, and tells the story of the most desirable woman in the world.
In this unfinished Truman Capote novel, when her parents travel to Europe in the summer of 1945, 17-year-old socialite Grady McNeil elects to remain in New York, where she engages in a romance that crosses class and religious barriers. Capote claimed for years that he had destroyed SUMMER CROSSING, but scholars discovered it among his papers in ...
Truman Capote (1924-1984), renowned for BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S and IN COLD BLOOD, was also a gifted short-story writer. In this welcome collection, the stories include the humorous and poignant "My Side of the Matter," the famously Southern Gothic "A Diamond Guitar", and Capote's wonderful memoirlike pieces "The Thanksgiving Visitor" and "A ...
The acclaimed biographer of Truman Capote brings together for the first time Capote's private letters, written to such correspondents as David O. Selznick, Edith Sitwell, Cecil Beaton, and Christopher Isherwood.
Set in a small Southern town in the 1930s, this classic work tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. Now a major motion picture from Fine Line Features, starring Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Piper Laurie, and Nell Carter.
When Buddy is picked on by a bully only his eccentric cousin, Miss Sook, can give him the right advice for handling the situation. Color illustrations accompany the text.
Recorded between July 16, 1982, and August 25, 1984, when Truman Capote died, these unexpurgated interviews cover a wide range of territory, including Capote's views on his life, his personal demons, his homosexuality, his bout with drugs and alcohol, and his rich and famous friends.
Perhaps no 20th-century writer was so observant and elegant a chronicler of his times as Capote. "Portraits and Observations" is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers.
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues...
The tranquil life he led in the quiet enclave of Brooklyn Heights stood in sharp contrast to the glittering scene he adored on the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge, but for a few years in the 1950's and '60's, Truman Capote happily made his home in a yellow brick house on Willow Street. By turns wistful and farcical, "A House on the Heights" ...
Truman Capote once said, "The thing I like to do most in the whole world is talk ...," and talk he does in the more than two dozen interviews collected in this book. The topics are often gossip about the famous people Capote ran with, but always he provides revealing information about his writings--the authors who inspired him, his meticulous ...
A more extensive version of the volume published in 1966, this compilation brings together Jane Bowles's entire creative output. Includes TWO SERIOUS LADIES, IN THE SUMMER HOUSE, PLAIN PLEASURES, and seven short stories including "Camp Cataract," which Truman Capote called "a comic tale of doom that has at its heart, and as its heart, the subtlest ...
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