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A Christmas Memory
Contributor(s): Capote, Truman (Author)

ISBN: 0679602372 ISBN-13: 9780679602378
Publisher: Modern Library

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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 1996
Annotation: Available for the first time in a single volume are the three holiday stories that Truman Capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction. Two of these childhood memoirs - "A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor" - center on the author's early years with a family of distant relatives in rural Alabama. Both pay loving tribute to an eccentric old-maid cousin, Miss Sook Faulk, who became his best friend. In "A Christmas Memory", Miss Sook, Buddy (the narrator), and their dog, Queenie, celebrate the yuletide in a hilariously tipsy state. In the poignant reminiscence "One Christmas", six-year-old Buddy journeys to New Orleans for a reunion with his estranged father that shatters many illusions. And in "The Thanksgiving Visitor", Miss Sook invites the school bully, Odd Henderson - called by Buddy "the meanest human creature in my experience" - to Thanksgiving dinner.

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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Biography & Autobiography
- Fiction | Literary

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 96026022

Lexile Measure: 870(Not Available)

Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)

Physical Information: 0.61" H x 4.87" W x 7.52" L (0.45 lbs) 128 pages

Themes:
- Holiday - Thanksgiving
- Holiday - Christmas

Features: Ikids, Price on Product

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 44937
Reading Level: 5.7 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 1.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
A holiday classic from one of the greatest writers and most fascinating society figures in American history (Vanity Fair)

First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection from Truman Capote (In Cold Blood; Breakfast at Tiffany's) about his rural Alabama boyhood is a perfect gift for Capote's fans young and old.

Seven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin, Miss Sook Falk: It's fruitcake weather Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship and the memories the two friends share of beloved holiday rituals.

A Christmas Memory has been described as a] gem of a holiday story (School Library Journal, starred review), and this warm and delicately illustrated edition is one you'll want to add to any Christmas or Capote collection.

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