Breakfast at Tiffany's - Softcover

Capote, Truman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140274111 ISBN 13: 9780140274110

Publisher: Penguin, 1998

Synopsis

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 place like Tiffany's that makes her feel at home.

Immortalized in a film starring Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote's BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S is full of sharp wit and in its exuberant cast of characters vividly captures the restless, slightly madcap era of early 1940s New York.

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Review:

Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation. He writes the best sentences word for word, rhythm upon rhythm. --Norman Mailer

From the Back Cover:

This is a story that was first published in 1958. This wacky hillbilly-turned-playgirl who lives in a Manhattan brownstone shares not only his philosophy of freedom and acceptance of human irregularities but also his fears and anxieties--'the mean reds' she calls them. For her the cure is to jump into a taxi and head for Tiffany's; nothing bad could happen, she says, amid 'that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets, '' and her dream is to have breakfast in that soothing setting.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0140274111
• ISBN 13: 9780140274110
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160