Capote, Truman 1924-1984

The complete stories of Truman Capote by Truman Capote( Book )
17 editions published between 2004 and 2008 in English and Polish and held by 1,596 libraries worldwide
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. 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 are captured in this first-ever compendium. The Collected Stories of Truman Capote should restore its author to a place above mere celebrity, to the highest levels of American letters.

Summer crossing : a novel by Truman Capote( Book )
55 editions published between 2005 and 2010 in 12 languages and held by 1,577 libraries worldwide
Seventeen-year-old Manhattan socialite Grady McNeil is free to pursue her illicit romance with Clyde Manzer, a parking lot attendant from Brooklyn, when her parents decide to leave her alone for the summer.

A Capote reader by Truman Capote( Book )
24 editions published between 1986 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,386 libraries worldwide
A selection of Capote's works divided into six parts: short stories, novellas, travel sketches, reportage, portraits, and essays.

Portraits and observations : the essays of Truman Capote by Truman Capote( Book )
7 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 1,286 libraries worldwide
A definitive anthology containing all of the author's essays encompasses his early travel sketches of Brooklyn, New Orleans, and Hollywood; portraits of Isak Dinesen, Mae West, Humphrey Bogart, and Marilyn Monroe; accounts of the filming of "In Cold Blood;" autobiographical musings; and the recently discovered "Remembering Willa Cather."

Conversations with Capote by Lawrence Grobel( Book )
29 editions published between 1985 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 1,162 libraries worldwide

One Christmas by Truman Capote( Book )
24 editions published between 1982 and 1998 in 9 languages and held by 1,007 libraries worldwide
Deux contes autobiographiques doux-amers.

Too brief a treat : the letters of Truman Capote ; edited by Gerald Clarke by Truman Capote( Book )
7 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in English and held by 957 libraries worldwide
"In Too Brief a Treat, the biographer Gerald Clarke brings together for the first time the private letters of Truman Capote. Spanning more than four decades, these letters reveal the inner life of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing personalities. As Clarke notes in his Introduction, Capote was an inveterate correspondent who both loved and craved love without inhibition. He wrote letters as he spoke: emphatically, spontaneously, and passionately. He also wrote them at a breakneck pace, unconcerned with posterity. Thus, in this volume we have perhaps the closest thing possible to an elusive treasure: a Capote autobiography." "Through his letters to the likes of William Styron and Gloria Vanderbilt, as well as to his publishers and editors, his longtime companion and lover Jack Dunphy, and others, we see Capote in all his life's phases - the uncannily self-possessed naif who jumped headlong into the dynamic post-World War II New York literary scene, and the more mature, established Capote of the 1950s. Then there is the Capote of the early 1960s, immersed in the research and writing of his masterpiece, In Cold Blood. Capote's correspondence with Kansas detective Alvin Dewey, and with Perry Smith, one of the killers profiled in that work, demonstrates the writer's intense devotion to his craft, while his letters to friends like Cecil Beaton show Capote giddy with his emergence as a flamboyant mass-media celebrity following In Cold Blood's publication. Finally, we see Capote later in his life, as things seemed to be unraveling: disillusioned, isolated by his substance abuse and by personal rivalries. (Ever effusive with praise and affection, Capote could nevertheless carry a grudge like few others.)"--Jacket.

The muses are heard, an account by Truman Capote( Book )
11 editions published between 1956 and 1958 in English and held by 922 libraries worldwide

Trilogy; an experiment in multimedia by Truman Capote( Book )
7 editions published between 1969 and 1971 in English and held by 892 libraries worldwide

Beat the devil( visu )
69 editions published between 1953 and 2007 in 4 languages and held by 739 libraries worldwide
An offbeat tale of adventure and suspense involving the passengers on a steamer who attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a parcel of land believed to be rich with uranium deposits.