Breakfast at Tiffany's & Other Voices, Other Rooms Contributor(s): Capote, Truman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812994361 ISBN-13: 9780812994360 Publisher: Modern Library
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover Published: February 2013 |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Urban |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2012464415 |
Physical Information: 0.91" H x 5.69" W x 8.26" L (0.94 lbs) 304 pages |
Features: Dust Cover, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents |
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Publisher Description: 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 estranged father--who is nowhere to be found. Instead, Joel meets his eccentric family and finds a kindred spirit in a defiant little girl. Despite its themes of waylaid hopes and lost innocence, this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel revels in small pleasures and the colorful language of its time and place. |
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