Easton Press Truman Capote books:
In Cold Blood - 2000
Franklin Library Truman Capote books:
Other Voices, Other Rooms - signed limited edition - 1979 (signed by Truman Capote)
Breakfast at Tiffany's + 3 Stories - collected stories of the worlds greatest writers - 1983
In Cold Blood
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.
As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.
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. The book that made Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative.
Other Voices, Other Rooms
Truman
Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and
inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he
seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly
landscape of the deep South.
At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is
summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel
arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully’s Landing, his father is
nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who
delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face and heart of a
debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer
him the closest thing he has ever known to love.
Published when
Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms
is a literary touchstone of the mid-twentieth century. In this
semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel, thirteen-year-old Joel Knox,
after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to live with the
father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at Skully’s
Landing, the decaying mansion in rural Alabama, his father is nowhere to
be found. Instead, Joel meets his morose stepmother, Amy, eccentric
cousin Randolph, and a defiant little girl named Idabel, who soon offers
Joel the love and approval he seeks.
Fueled by a world-weariness
that belied Capote’s tender age, this novel tempers its themes of
waylaid hopes and lost innocence with an appreciation for small
pleasures and the colorful language of its time and place.
Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories
n
this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name
has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary
landscape her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.
It's
New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till
breakfast at Tiffany's... And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly
Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly
is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a
perplexer, a traveler, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the
shock department', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction.
Includes titles:
House of Flowers
Ottilie
is entranced by a beautiful young man, and leaves her life and friends
to live with him and his old grandmother, who seems to hate her.
A Diamond Guitar
Hear the story of the prized possession of a younger prison inmate, a rhinestone-studded guitar.
A Christmas Memory
A
poignant tale of two innocents a small boy and the old woman who is his
best friend whose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.
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