- Christmas stories, American literature, Families, Fiction
*A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.* Seven-year-old Buddy knows that the Christmas season has arrived when his cousin, Miss Sook Falk exclaims: "It's fruitcake weather!" Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd, but enduring, friendship between two innocent souls—one young and one old—and the memories they share of beloved holiday rituals.
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Intimate, contemplative, nostalgic and earnest.
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Truman Capote
- First published
- 1956
- Pages
- 48
- Publisher
- Scholastic, Random House Children's Books, Random House
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780141994697
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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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