Name: Breakfast at Tiffany's & Other Voices, Other Rooms (Modern Library)
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Author: Capote, Truman
ISBN: 9780812994360

portada Breakfast at Tiffany's & Other Voices, Other Rooms (Modern Library)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Truman Capote

Publisher

Modern Library

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.0 x 14.5 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN

0812994361

ISBN13

9780812994360

Synopsis "Breakfast at Tiffany's & Other Voices, Other Rooms (Modern Library)"

From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote--also available are In Cold Blood, Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Together in one volume, here are a pair of literary touchstones from Truman Capote's extraordinary early career: the transcendently popular novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Voices, Other Rooms, the debut novel he published as a twenty-three-year-old prodigy. Of all his characters, Capote once said, Holly Golightly was his favorite. The hillbilly-turned-Manhattanite at the center of Breakfast at Tiffany's shares not only the author's philosophy of freedom but also his fears and anxieties. For Holly, the cure is to jump into a taxi and head for Tiffany's; nothing bad could happen, she believes, amid "that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets." Other Voices, Other Rooms begins as thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to rural Alabama to live with his estranged father--who is nowhere to be found. Instead, Joel meets his eccentric family and finds a kindred spirit in a defiant little girl. Despite its themes of waylaid hopes and lost innocence, this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel revels in small pleasures and the colorful language of its time and place.