A Christmas Memory (Tale Blazers: American Literature) - Softcover

Capote, Truman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0895986639 ISBN 13: 9780895986634

Publisher: Perfection Learning, 1990

Synopsis

Provides an unabridged selection from the story of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman and includes activities and exercises based on the text.

About this title

About the Author:

TRUMAN CAPOTE was born in 1924 and died in 1984. Based on his own boyhood in rural Alabama in the 1930s,A Christmas Memory was orginally published in Mademoiselle in 1956 and later was included inBreakfast at Tiffany's.

BETH PECK, a designer and illustrator of many children's books, fell in love with the writing of Truman Capote and counts her paintings forA Christmas Memory and The Thanksgiving Visitor, also by Capote, among the work that is closest to her heart.

From the Inside Flap:

10 years old, Truman Capote lived with distant relatives. This book is an autobiographical story of those years and especially about his relationship with one of his cousins, Miss Sook Faulk.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perfection Learning
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0895986639
• ISBN 13: 9780895986634
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 36