About this title: 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 Christmas Memory."
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781400096916ISBN:140009691X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Excellent, like-new condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 300 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781400096916ISBN:140009691X
Description: Good. I am a soft cover book that you will find is internally free of any form of marking, soiling, or once dog eared pages, with a snug binding, and straight spine. However my soft covers have a moderate reduction to their original new luster with spots of moderate to light edge wear. I am simply a clean, snug, and sturdy reading copy. It is no secret that the market fluctuates on all commodities including media items, and it is always possible that we have overvalued a product listed. ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781400096916ISBN:140009691X
Description: Good. Soft cover has minor shelf wear, cover is lifting up, faint creases down spine, pre-owners name inside, few dog eared pages, otherwise tight and clean. read more
Edition: 4th Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781400096916ISBN:140009691X
Description: As New. To view other titles by this author enter the kewords; Capote. The book is in excellent condition with minor wear o/w tight clean and square. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781400096916ISBN:140009691X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780141188089ISBN:0141188081
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 320 pages. (320 pages) a complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century american literature. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780679643104ISBN:0679643109
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Edition: First Edition; Fourth Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780679643104ISBN:0679643109
Description: New in New dust jacket. 0679643109. New; New fourth printing hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. Protective mylar cover. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Modern Library (Random House), New York
Date Published: 2004
Description: Near Fine. No Jacket. Advance Uncorrected Proof of the collected stories. A near fine copy in thick bound glossy wrappers. Introduction by Reynolds Price. read more
Edition: Advance reading copy (uncorrected proofs) of the first edition.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Modern Library, New York
Date Published: 2004
Description: A fine copy; front cover states (in part): "Advance Uncorrected Proofs". CAPOTE, Truman. THE COLLECTED STORIES OF TRUMAN CAPOTE. Introduction by Reynolds Price. Octavo, glossy decorated wrappers, pp. xi, 381. read more
"A smattering of stories from the late 1940's up to the end of Truman Capote's life (he passed away in the mid-1980's), this body of work appears to represent more of a fictionalized auto-biography than a complete anthology of short stories. It is interesting to see the author as a hurt character who never recovered from a childhood of neglect from parents whose fulfillments did not include the support of the only child that resulted from their marriage. Because of this hurt, Truman comes across as someone who could not outgrow the pangs of being a young boy tortured and left to whither emotionally, a state from which he never seemed to recover. One reads this in a series of stories that reflect on a young boy from Alabama who grew up in a big creaking house with all sort of cousins and an aunt named Sook who was ultimately his best friend, along with a terrier named Queenie. By the end of this short story collection, Mr. Capote no longer holds the pretense that these are fictionalized characters and outright names this in a vignette written for a friend in fictional form, in the story "One Christmas". Reading this account, I can understand why others have cast Truman as a self-absorbed man who grasped for greatness but tragically failed to attain it. This spotty brilliance can be appreciated by reading this short story collection and comparing it against "In Cold Blood", "Breakfast at Tiffany's", and that famous holiday short story "A Christmas Memory" (which again recalls Queenie and that same Alabama childhood in another reframing). After reading through this collection, I feel comfortable to put it down and move on to another author."
"These stories were really hit and miss for me... I liked the ones best where they were actually about him and his childhood. Some of the other fiction ones just seemed kind of rambling, although I did find some interesting. He is twisted in a way that I like (sometimes). A lot of these stories would just go along and go along, and then boom - something completely twisted or disturbing would happen in the last paragraph. I appreciated that even though it could leave me feeling creepy."
"I thought that the beginning stories were too much like Flannery O'conner (who I like but not when I am wanting to read Truman Capote). As I kept reading the book I found that the later stories were trademark Capote and I loved them! Very southern grotesuque."
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