Truman Capote
Truman Capote
Early Stories of Truman Capote
'Breathtaking ... The stories are special. They stand in their own right as lovely vignettes of the lives of the lonely, broken and troubled' Andrew Johnson, Independent Written when Truman Capote was in his teens and twenties, these recently-disc...
Truman
The Pulitzer Prizewinning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished historian.The life ...
Truman
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished historian. The lif...
Truman
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished historian. The lif...
Capote
The authoritative biography of Truman Capote, a bestseller when originally published on both sides of the Atlantic.
Frukost På Tiffany's
I ett nedslitet tegelhus i New York, med en brokig samling hyresgäster, bor den lättsinniga och förtrollande Holly Golightly, 19-årig överlevnadskonstnär. Genom grannen, den unge Författaren, får vi följa hennes halsbrytande liv ett hektiskt år under andra världskriget. Truman Capote, som i den unge Författaren tecknar ett ömsint och lite ironiskt självporträtt, kom att bli en av USA:s mest lästa moderna författare. Hans bitterljuva berättelse om Holly, som när ångesten väller över henne drömmer om att äta frukost på Tiffany's, New Yorks elegantaste juvelerarbutik, har blivit en klassiker. Boken innehåller också tre noveller av Truman Capote: Ett hus av blommor, En diamantgitarr och Ett julminne - alla tre lysande exempel på Capotes stilkonst.
Frukost på Tiffany's, E-bok
I ett nedslitet tegelhus i New York, med en brokig samling hyresgäster, bor den lättsinniga och förtrollande Holly Golightly, 19-årig överlevnadskonstnär. Genom grannen, den unge Författaren, får vi följa hennes halsbrytande liv ett hektiskt år under andra världskriget. Truman Capote, som i den unge Författaren tecknar ett ömsint och lite ironiskt självporträtt, kom att bli en av USA:s mest lästa moderna författare. Hans bitterljuva berättelse om Holly, som när ångesten väller över henne drömmer om att äta frukost på Tiffany's, New Yorks elegantaste juvelerarbutik, har blivit en klassiker. Boken innehåller också tre noveller av Truman Capote: Ett hus av blommor, En diamantgitarr och Ett julminne - alla tre lysande exempel på Capotes stilkonst.
Capote Reader
'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 cont...
Truman Capote and the Legacy of ""in Cold Blood
Ralph F. Voss¿was a high school junior in¿Plainville,¿Kansas¿in mid-November of 1959 when four members of the Herbert Clutter family were murdered in¿Holcomb,¿Kansas, by ¿four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives," an unimagin...
Nurejews Hund Oder Was Sehnsucht Vermag
Sie ¿finden¿ einander auf der Party des Schriftstellers Truman Capote in New York: der elegante russische Tänzer Rudolf Nurejew und der plumpe, schmutzfarbene Hund Oblomow. Die innige Zuneigung zwischen den beiden soll weit über ...
Dewey Defeats Truman
A masterful retelling of a legend and famous headline of modern American history-Harry Truman's upset victory over Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential election. Set in Dewey's hometown of Owosso, Michigan, this is the captivating sto...
Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore
Discover the signature sartorial and literary style of fifty men and women of letters, including Maya Angelou; Truman Capote; Colette; Bret Easton Ellis; Allen Ginsberg; Patti Smith; Karl Ove Knausgaard; and David Foster Wallace; in this unique co...
New York Stories
Writers have always been uniquely inspired by New York City, and the classic stories collected here provide a kaleidoscopic vision of the metropolis in all its grittiness and glamour. Acclaimed writers past and present, ranging from Truman Capote,...
Taking Woodstock
This is the movie tie-in edition. Directed by Ang Lee, starring Emile Hirsch and Demetri Martin, Taking Woodstock celebrates the Woodstock, and author Elliot Tiber's coming of age and his relationships with Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams and Ro...
Tiny Terror
Truman Capote was one of the most gifted and flamboyant writers of his generation, renowned for such books as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and his masterpiece, the nonfiction novel In Cold Blood. What has received comparative...
Untold Stories, Unheard Voices
In Cold Blood remains one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century, a study of crime and a polemic against capital punishment that is without peer. Truman Capote purportedly considered it the first nonfiction novel, ushering in the era ...
Om Andra röster, andra rum av Truman Capote, E-bok
Nyskrivet förord av författaren och litteraturkritikern Sebastian Lönnlöv till Andra röster, andra rum av Truman Capote. Om Andra röster, andra rum: Joel Knox är 13 när hans mamma dör och han flyttar in hos släktingar i New Orleans. Ett oväntat brev anländer - från Joes far, som övergav honom när han var nyfödd. Brevet innehåller en inbjudan: han ska få bo med sin pappa på en ståtlig herrgård i Alabama. När Joel anländer - till Skullys Landing, djupt i den lantliga Södern - visar sig stället spöklikt nedgånget. Och fadern syns inte till. Han möter i stället sin styvmor Amy och hennes kusin Randolph, samt tjänarna Zoo och Jesus. Han lär också känna Idabel, en argsint grannflicka (eller är hon pojke). När omständigheterna kring hans far uppdagas har Joel hunnit bli en annan. Inget kommer någonsin att bli som förut. Truman Capotes debutroman Andra röster, andra rum [Other Voices, Other Rooms] blev en omedelbar klassiker när den utkom 1948. I dag räknas den till milstolparna i den amerikanska 1900-talslitteraturen.
The Glass of Fashion
The camera will never be invented that could capture or encompass all that he actually sees, Truman Capote once said of Cecil Beaton. Though known for his portraits, Beaton was as incisive a writer as he was a photographer. First published in 1954...
Breakfast at Tiffany's
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her po...
Breakfast at Tiffany's & Other Voices, Other Rooms
From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote--also available are In Cold Blood, Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Together in one volume, here are a pair of literary touchstones from Truman Capote's extraordinary early career: the transcendently popular novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Voices, Other Rooms, the debut novel he published as a twenty-three-year-old prodigy. Of all his characters, Capote once said, Holly Golightly was his favorite. The hillbilly-turned-Manhattanite at the center of Breakfast at Tiffany's shares not only the author's philosophy of freedom but also his fears and anxieties. For Holly, the cure is to jump into a taxi and head for Tiffany's; nothing bad could happen, she believes, amid 'that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets.' Other Voices, Other Rooms begins as thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to rural Alabama to live with his
A Christmas Memory
Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote, the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's,are a captivating tribute to the Christmas season'We set about choosing a tree. "It should be," muses my friend, "twice as tall as a boy. So a boy can't steal the star."'Selected from across Truman Capote's writing life, these Christmas stories range from nostalgic, semi-autobiographical portraits of childhood to more unsettling tales of darkness beneath the festive glitter."It should be," muses my friend, "twice as tall as a boy. So a boy can't steal the star.In the Deep South of Capote's youth, a young boy, Buddy, and his beloved maiden 'aunt' Sook forage for pecans and whiskey to bake into fruitcakes, make kites - too broke to buy gifts - and rise before dawn to prepare feasts for a ragged assembly of guests; while in other stories, a lonely woman has a troubling encounter in wintry New York and an unlikely festive miracle, of sorts, occurs at a local drugstore. Brimming with feeling, these sparkling tales convey both the wonder and the chill of Christmas time.
Summer Crossing
Grady - beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant - is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced to. A girl to whom people sense something is going to happen ... But her privile...
Answered Prayers
P.B. Jones is the amoral, bisexual protagonist of this unfinished novel. He 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 t...
Music for Chameleons
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 ...
In Cold Blood
Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this ter...
In Cold Blood - A True Account Of A Multiple Murder And Its Consequences
The chilling true crime 'non-fiction novel' that made Truman Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative published in Penguin Modern Classics.Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human.Truman Capote (1924-84) was born in New Orleans. He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for The New Yorker, which provided his first - and last - regular job. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction - short stories, novels and novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays and films; his other works include In Cold Blood (1965), Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of which are published in Penguin Modern Classics.If you enjoyed In Cold Blood, you might like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs' And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'It is the American dream turning into the American nightmare ... By juxtaposing and dovetailing the lives and values of the Clutters and those of the killers, Capote produces a stark image of the deep doubleness of American life ... a remarkable book'Spectator
Summer Crossing
Summer Crossing
In Cold Blood
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote--also available are Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the 'new journalism.' Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. 'I thought he was a very nice gentleman,' he says of Herb Clutter. 'Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.' Told in chapters that
In Cold Blood
With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature. As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, Capote generates suspense and empathy.
Answered Prayers
Although Truman Capote's last novel was unfinished at the time of his death, its surviving portions offer a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time. - Includes the story La Cote Basque featured in the major FX series Feud: Capote Vs. the Swans. 'Prose that makes the heart sing and the narrative fly.' --The New York Times Book Review 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 C te Basque, from literary salons to high-priced 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. Above all, this malevolently funny book displays Capote at his most relentlessly observant and murderously witty.