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ISBN-10: 140009691X
ISBN-13: 9781400096916
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 09/13/2005
Dimensions: 7.98" L, 5.28" W, 0.76" H

The Complete Stories of Truman Capote

Introduction by: Reynolds Price

Paperback

Price: $17.00

Overview

A 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.

“To best experience Capote the stylist, one must go back to his short fiction. . . . One experiences as strongly as ever his gift for concrete abstraction and his spectacular observancy.” –The New Yorker

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 are here, in stories as elegant as they are heartfelt, as haunting as they are compassionate. Reading them reminds us of the miraculous gifts of a beloved American original.

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"An abundance of riches. . . . It is not hard at all to open to any page . . . and be amused, moved, intrigued." –Newsday

"To best experience Capote the stylist, one must go back to his short fiction. . . . One experiences as strongly as ever his gift for concrete abstraction and his spectacular observancy." –The New Yorker

"It is a stunning experience to reread this fiction . . . and to realize how very golden this boy was. . . . We are in the presence of a tremendous talent, and a fully mature technique as well. Norman Mailer's judgment that Capote was the most perfect writer of their generation–'he writes the best sentences word for word, rhythm upon rhythm'–seems true and just." –The New Criterion

"Capote does some things perfectly than many writers can't do at all. . . . He summons the sensory world in its bewildering, inexhaustible richness." –Los Angeles Times Book Review

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Details

ISBN-10: 140009691X
ISBN-13: 9781400096916
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 09/13/2005
Dimensions: 7.98" L, 5.28" W, 0.76" H
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