- American Short stories, Manners and customs, Fiction, Social life and customs
Published with three short stories this novella cemented Capote’s position at the forefront of American literature. It is the story of a friendship between New York neighbours, good time girl Holly Golightly and the unnamed male narrator.
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Intimate, character-led, prestige and classical in form.
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Truman Capote
- First published
- September 3, 1998
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Sel Yayıncılık, Taiwan shang wu yin shu guan, Gallimard
- Editions
- 113
- Language
- Japanese, heb, cze, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9789722031325
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“I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.”
**Truman Capote** was an American writer, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella *Breakfast at Tiffany's* (1958) and *In Cold Blood* (1965), which he labeled a "nonfiction novel".
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