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In Cold Blood
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2001; US$ 15.00National Bestseller 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... more...
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 14.00In 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 poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm. This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories,... more...
Other Voices, Other Rooms
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.00Truman 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... more...
ANSWERED PRAYERS
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.00Although 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 literary salons to high-priced whorehouses.... more...
The Grass Harp
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.00Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits?an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies?who 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... more...
Music For Chameleons
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.00In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise; and a proper Connecticut... more...
Summer Crossing
Random House Publishing Group 2012; US$ 14.00Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance she is dangerously pursuing and the effect it will have on everyone involved.... more...
A Christmas Memory
Random House Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.95First 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 Journal , starred review). Seven-year-old Buddy inaugurates... more...
Portraits and Observations
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 17.00Perhaps no twentieth century writer was so observant and elegant a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. Whether he was profiling the rich and famous or creating indelible word-pictures of events and places near and far, Capote?s eye for detail and dazzling style made his reportage and commentary undeniable triumphs of the form. Portraits and... more...
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.00A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote?s life?s work in the form he called his ?great love,? The Complete Stories confirms Capote?s status as a master of the short story. Ranging from the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and people of Capote?s oeuvre... more...









