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Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925. He is the author of many highly praised books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories (1949), The Grass Harp (1951), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), In Cold Blood (1965), which immediately became the...
'Breathtaking .. The stories are special. They stand in their own right as lovely vignettes of the lives of the lonely, broken and troubled' Andrew Johnson, Independent
In der flirrenden Atmosphäre des New Yorker Hochsommers lässt sich die 18-jährige Holly Golightly vom Strom des leichten Lebens treiben. Mit unverschämtem Charme und überraschendem Einfallsreichtum schlägt sie sich durch zwis...
From the Modern Librarys new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capotealso available are In Cold Blood, Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Together in one volume, here are a pair of literary touchstone...
Considered by many to be the first work of the true crime genre, this ground-breaking book reconstructs the murder of the Clutter family from information provided by newspaper articles and interviews.
'What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits'....
Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠The most famous true crime novel of all time "c hills the blood and exercises the intelligence" ( The New York Review of Books ) â and haunted its author long after he finished...
Including a previously-unpublished story 'The Bargain', Truman Capote's The Complete Stories is the first ever complete collection stories from one of the masters of American literature, and the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's . This Penguin...
âWitness the coming together of Truman Capoteâs voice, the electric-into-neon blaze that is surely one of the premier styles of postwar American literature.ââ The Washington Post Book...
Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding...
'Everything is displayed in this book: insights and recollections of the famous and the obscure; old jokes and fresh wit.. These stories and vignettes will endure.' - New Republic.In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and...