Truman Capote
Author
Publisher
Vintage International, Vintage Books, a division of Random house, Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The title story chronicles the poignancy, wit, and naïveté of Holly Golightly, an amoral playgirl living in New York City. The volume also includes three of Capote's best known short stories.
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
As it follows the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La Côte Basque, from literary salons to highpriced whorehouses. It takes in calculating beauties and sadistic husbands along with such real-life supporting characters as Colette, the Duchess of Windsor, Montgomery Clift, and Tallulah Bankhead. Although Truman Capote's last novel was unfinished...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
A definitive anthology containing all of the author's essays encompasses his early travel sketches of Brooklyn, New Orleans, and Hollywood; portraits of Isak Dinesen, Mae West, Humphrey Bogart, and Marilyn Monroe; accounts of the filming of "In Cold Blood;" autobiographical musings; and the recently discovered "Remembering Willa Cather."
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1980.
Language
English
Description
At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a nonfiction novel based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer.Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also in this volume are six short stories and seven conversational portraits including a touching one of Marilyn Monroe, the beautiful...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfitsan orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladieswho one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the sacredness of love . . .
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as grotesque as they were compassionate. Now, on the occasion of what would have been his eightieth birthday, the Modern Library presents the first collection that includes all of Capote's...