Breakfast at Tiffany Truman Capote Books
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'What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits'. Meet Holly Golightly - a free spirited, lop-sided romantic girl about town. With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly is a style sensation wherever she goes. Her apartment rocks to Martini-soaked parties and she plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate dream - to find a real life place like Tiffany's that makes her feel at home. Full of sharp wit and exuberant, larger-than-life characters which vividly capture the restless, madcap era of 1940s New York, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" will make you fall in love, perhaps for the first time, with a book.
Breakfast at Tiffany Truman Capote Books
I read a few of the reviews presented here and some are long and involved filled with personal opinions of Holly versus their own lives and I think most people at this point are just wanting to hear if the book is worth putting out the ten bucks for. I am also one of those people who enjoyed the movie and I already knew the story was not going to be the same so I was keying on the writing. The writing is beautiful. They are all short stories, quickly read and enjoyable. The images within the meticulous writing are worthy of a first class writer. The money is well spent for someone who enjoys good writing. The stories are just what they are - stories.Product details
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Breakfast at Tiffany Truman Capote Books Reviews
With the possible exception of the Herbert Clutter family of IN COLD BLOOD, Miss Holiday Golightly, "Traveling," has to be Truman Capote's best-known character. Those who have seen the movie with Audrey Hepburn may be surprised to read Capote's World War II-set novella and realize that "Holly" was more of a demimondaine -- and even a bit of a racist -- compared to the beguiling movie. As "George Constanza" found out to his chagrin on an episode of SEINFELD, there is no room in this novella for a George Peppard-type love interest. Nonetheless, it's captivating reading. Enjoy it as Capote and the NEW YORKER magazine meant it to be.
Perhaps better yet for the canny "Capote consumer," this 2013 Random House companion volume includes Capote's etheral first published novel, OTHER VOICES OTHER ROOMS, written in a style of literary symbolism that captures so well the changes a young orphan goes through when he leaves home, connects with distant relatives in a distant location, and realizes his sexuality. Few contemporary readers realize that Capote journeyed well into Southern Gothick with this late-Forties novel. It isn't perfect, but it is highly absorbing, and psychologically revelatory in a way Capote didn't really intend when he wrote it.
One novella, one novel; one well-known, the other that deserves to be. This isn't a huge volume, but getting them together between hard covers make this a worthwhile buy.
Truman Capote was a genius. There isn't much more to say than that. The novella "Breakfast At Tiffany's" and the three short stories in this collection are a brilliant and compelling picture of human nature. Capote strikes the notes between quirky, uncommon people and their actions and simple touching stories. His characters aren't quite lovable (not people you would want to invite over to dinner with the folks) but they are nevertheless very human and often touching, not off-putting. Breakfast At Tiffany's is much grittier than the rather sanitized Audrey Hepburn-George Peppard film version. The final story in the collection, "A Christmas Memory" is potent without being sappy. Capote's style is readable yet poetic and there are times when his turn of phrase is spot on. I was also surprised that the humor in the stories have a very light touch, unlike the more notorious brutal humor of his real-life persona. This book was one of the few that I've fully enjoyed recently.
I decided to read Breakfast at Tiffany’s because of the iconic movie in which Audrey Hepburn plays the eccentric 19-year-old Holly Golightly. I was drawn into the complexity of her character and her somewhat posh lifestyle. Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s holds a mysterious aspect to its characters, which compelled me to read more. The fact that I didn’t know too much about the narrator allowed me to experience Holly Golightly under more detail. What made the story so unique was the narration technique Capote used. By making the narrator exist as an extension of Holly, readers could experience his infatuation for her.
What really made this book stand out was Capote’s sensitivity and attention to details. Holly’s New York is quite visceral and it’s almost as though I could experience the high end, New York lifestyle in real life. Holly appears an illusion and twists into any shape the people in her life expect her to be. Holly is a walking contradiction, and her mystery only increases with the numbers on the pages. She seems to know nothing about the world, yet she always seems to be one step ahead, knowing just what to say and how to act. Capote writes Holly as a person who listens only to her heart, breaks the rules and doesn't really care about the future. She is the kind of woman that can’t be tamed and who is in a continual search for the place, which she calls "home". I wished Capote had evolved Holly Golightly more as a character. When she runs away to Buenos Aires, the narrator and myself were left with many questions. Has she forgotten about her friend and that's the reason why she never writes to him? Where did her affairs bring her? Did she find that perfect place where she felt like at Tiffany's? Overall, I was pleased with the book and its wholly captivating flight into fancy composed of comedy, romance, poignancy, and Manhattan's East Side areas captured in the loveliest of colors.
Michelle T.
I read a few of the reviews presented here and some are long and involved filled with personal opinions of Holly versus their own lives and I think most people at this point are just wanting to hear if the book is worth putting out the ten bucks for. I am also one of those people who enjoyed the movie and I already knew the story was not going to be the same so I was keying on the writing. The writing is beautiful. They are all short stories, quickly read and enjoyable. The images within the meticulous writing are worthy of a first class writer. The money is well spent for someone who enjoys good writing. The stories are just what they are - stories.
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