Synopsis
The celebrated author of In Cold Blood returns to the short story in a collection which shows both continuity with Capote's past concerns and perspectives and new turns in style and approach
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Review
"An incomparable stylist and entertainer...clean and cool...[with a] superb, near-perfect pitch with dialogue." --"The New York Times Book Review"
"Everything is displayed in this book: insights and recollections of the famous and the obscure; old jokes and fresh wit...These stories and vingettes will endure." --"New Republic"
"Electrifying . . . a knockout. Capote's alacrity and cunning makes this his most enjoyable book." --"Newsweek
" "An incomparable stylist and entertainer . . . clean and cool . . . [with a] superb, near-perfect pitch with dialogue."" --The New York Times Book Review
""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." "--The New Republic
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About the Author
Truman Capote was a native of New Orleans, where he was born on September 30, 1924. His first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, was an international literary success when first published in 1948, and accorded the author a prominent place among the writers of America's postwar generation. He sustained this position subsequently with short-story collections (A Tree of Night, among others), novels and novellas (The Grass Harp and Breakfast at Tiffany's), some of the best travel writing of our time (Local Color), profiles and reportage that appeared originally in The New Yorker (The Duke in His Domain and The Muses Are Heard), a true-crime masterpiece (In Cold Blood), several short memiors about his childhood in the South (A Christmas Memory, The Thanksgiving Visitor, and One Christmas), two plays (The Grass Harp and House of Flowers and two films (Beat the devil and The Innocents).
Mr. Capote twice won the O.Henry Memorial Short Story Prize and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in August 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.
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