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Complete Stories of Truman Capote by Truman Capote
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote--also available are "Breakfast at Tiffany's "and" Other Voices, Other Rooms "(in one volume), " In Cold Blood, "and "Portraits and Observations" Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of "Breakfast at ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Category: True Crime | Series: Popular Penguins
Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, wh ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Category: Classics
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote also available are Breakfast at Tiffany s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The ...Show more
In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder And Its Consequences by Truman Capote
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Dick became convinced that Perry was that rarity, 'a natural killer'- absolutely sane, but conscienceless, and capable of dealing, with or without motive, the coldest-blooded deathblows' On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, a wealthy farmer, his wife and their two young children ...Show more
In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those i ...Show more
Music for Chameleons: New Writing by Truman Capote
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
At the centre of Music for Chameleonsis Handcarved Coffins,a 'nonfiction novel' based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer. Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also in this ...Show more
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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 ...Show more
Summer Crossing by Truman Capote
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
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 an ...Show more
Summer Crossing by Truman Capote
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Truman Capote's newly discovered first novel. Grady beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced to. A girl to whom people sense something is going to happen. But her privileged society life o ...Show more
The 50s: The Story of a Decade by The New Yorker Magazine; Henry Finder (Contribution by); David Remnick (Introduction by); Elizabeth Bishop (Contribution by); Truman Capote (Contribution by); Henry Finder (Editor)
Category: History | Series: New Yorker: the Story of a Decade Ser.
Including contributions by Elizabeth Bishop - Truman Capote - John Cheever - Roald Dahl - Janet Flanner - Nadine Gordimer - A. J. Liebling - Dwight Macdonald - Joseph Mitchell - Marianne Moore - Vladimir Nabokov - Sylvia Plath - V. S. Pritchett - Adrienne Rich - Lillian Ross - Philip Roth - Anne Sexton ...Show more