#54 The Complete Stories
Title: The Complete Stories
Author: Truman Capote
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 320 (HB)
Length of time to read: 5 days
Synopsis:
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 short fiction-a volume that confirms his status as one of the masters of this form.
Among the selections are “A Tree of Night,” in which an innocent student, sitting on a train beside a slatternly woman and her deaf-mute companion, enters a seductive nightmare that brings back the deepest fears of childhood . . . “House of Flowers,” the inspiration for a celebrated Broadway musical, which tells of a superstitious prostitute who learns to love in a way no one else can ever understand . . . the holiday perennial “A Christmas Memory,” famously adapted into a superb made-for-TV movie . . . and “The Bargain,” Capote’s melancholy, never-before-published 1950 story about a suburban housewife’s shifting fortunes.
Recommended By:
I have been trying to find a copy of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and was told to look for in a compilation of his work.
Review:
Well, it wasn’t in this collection, but there were some good ones in this book. I realized as I read the book that I really like his style of writing, but the ones I liked best were the twisted or depressing ones! I look forward to finding Breakfast at Tiffany’s and reading it!
Author: Truman Capote
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 320 (HB)
Length of time to read: 5 days
Synopsis:
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 short fiction-a volume that confirms his status as one of the masters of this form.
Among the selections are “A Tree of Night,” in which an innocent student, sitting on a train beside a slatternly woman and her deaf-mute companion, enters a seductive nightmare that brings back the deepest fears of childhood . . . “House of Flowers,” the inspiration for a celebrated Broadway musical, which tells of a superstitious prostitute who learns to love in a way no one else can ever understand . . . the holiday perennial “A Christmas Memory,” famously adapted into a superb made-for-TV movie . . . and “The Bargain,” Capote’s melancholy, never-before-published 1950 story about a suburban housewife’s shifting fortunes.
Recommended By:
I have been trying to find a copy of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and was told to look for in a compilation of his work.
Review:
Well, it wasn’t in this collection, but there were some good ones in this book. I realized as I read the book that I really like his style of writing, but the ones I liked best were the twisted or depressing ones! I look forward to finding Breakfast at Tiffany’s and reading it!