Truman Capote

Kylmäverisesti on yhdysvaltalaisen kirjailija Truman Capoten 1966 julkaistu kirja. Teoksen on suomentanut Tammelle 1966 Tauno Tainio. Kirja kertoo yksityiskohtaisesti vuonna 1959 Kansasin Holcombissa tapahtuneesta maanviljelijä Herbert Clutterin, hänen vaimonsa ja heidän kahden lapsensa murhasta. Kun Capote sai tietää …

Aamiainen Tiffanylla on Truman Capoten kirja vuodelta 1958. Suomeksi teos ilmestyi vuonna 1967 Tammen kustantamana. Suomennostyön tekivät Inkeri Hämäläinen ja Kristiina Kivivuori. Blake Edwards ohjasi kirjan pohjalta samannimisen elokuvan, joka sai ensi-iltansa vuonna 1961.

Truman 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 …

In 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 …

The Grass Harp is a novel by Truman Capote published on October 1, 1951 It tells the story of an orphaned boy and two elderly ladies who observe life from a tree. They eventually leave their temporary retreat to make amends with each other and other members of society.

Thought 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 …

"A Christmas Memory" is a short story by Truman Capote. Originally published in Mademoiselle magazine in December 1956, it was reprinted in The Selected Writings of Truman Capote in 1963. It was issued in a stand-alone hardcover edition by Random House in 1966, and it has been published in many editions and …

Although 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 …

"A Christmas Memory" is a short story by Truman Capote. Originally published in Mademoiselle magazine in December 1956, it was reprinted in The Selected Writings of Truman Capote in 1963. It was issued in a stand-alone hardcover edition by Random House in 1966, and it has been published in many editions and …