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Spare, cool, classical in form and prestige.
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Truman Capote
- First published
- March 21, 1997
- Pages
- 386
- Publisher
- Gallimard, Plume, Ultramar
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- German, English, Spanish, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780452251618
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**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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