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A Capote Reader by Truman Capote
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The only four things that interested me were: reading books, going to the movies, tap-dancing and drawing pictures. Then one day I started writing ...' Truman Capote began writing at the age of eight, and never looked back. "A Capote Reader" contains much of the author's published work: his brilliant a ...Show more
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
Category: Classics
First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Truman Capote's rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic. We are proud to be reprinting this warm and delicately illustrated edition of "A Christmas Memory"--"a tiny gem of a holiday story" ("School Library Jou ...Show more
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
Category: Fiction
Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote form a captivating tribute to the Christmas season Selected from across Capote's writing life, the stories range from nostalgic portraits of childhood to more unsettling works that reveal the darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South o ...Show more
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
Category: Classics
Tender and bittersweet, these three interlinked stories are Truman Capote's captivating tribute to the Christmas season Looking back on childhood Christmases on his relatives' sprawling Alabama farm, Buddy records his unlikely friendship with his beloved maiden 'aunt', Sook: foraging for pecans to bake ...Show more
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
Category: Gift | Series: Modern Library
Truman Capote's boyhood Christmas memoir, rereleased with a beautiful new packaging and a CD.The classic story of Truman Capote's childhood Christmas ritual is more endearing than ever in this newly redesigned package. The classic story of Truman Capote's childhood Christmas ritual is more endearing th ...Show more
A Christmas Memory Book and CD by Truman Capote
Category: Children's
Truman Capote's boyhood Christmas memoir rereleased in a beautiful new package, which includes a CD with the audio version of the text. The classic story of Truman Capote's childhood Christmas ritual is more endearing than ever in this newly redesigned package. In celebration of "A Christmas Memory"'s e ...Show more
Answered Prayers by Truman Capote
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
P B Jones discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. He discovers along the way that prayers that are answered cause more pain than those that remain ignored.
Answered PrayersThe Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Although Truman Capote's last, unfinished novel offers a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time.Tracing 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 l ...Show more
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Holly Golightly is generally up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She hasn't got a past. She doesn't want to belong to anything or anyone, not even to her one-eyed rag-bag pirate of a cat. One day Holly might find somewhere she belongs. Also includes: House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, ...Show more