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From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote--also available are "Breakfast at Tiffany's "and" Other Voices, Other Rooms "(in one volume), " In Cold Blood, "and "Portraits and Observations" Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "In Cold Blood, " or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as compassionate as they were grotesque. This volume is the first to assemble all of Capote's short fiction--a collection that indeed confirms his status as one of the masters of this form. From the Gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and people of Capote's oeuvre are captured in this compendium. "The Complete Stories of Truman Capote" restores its author to a place not only above mere celebrity but to the highest levels of American letters.

El 15 de noviembre de 1959, en un pueblecito de Kansas, los cuatro miembros de la familia Clutter fueron salvajemente asesinados en su casa. Los crímenes eran, aparentemente, inmotivados, y no se encontraron claves que permitieran identificar a los asesinos. Cinco años despues, Dick Hickcock y Perry Smith fueron ahorcados como culpables de las muertes. A partir de estos hechos, y tras realizar largas y minuciosas investigaciones con los protagonistas reales de la historia, Truman Capote dio un vuelco a su carrera de narrador y escribio "A sangre fria", la novela que le consagro definitivamente como uno de los grandes de la literatura norteamericana del siglo xx. Capote sigue paso a paso la vida del pequeño pueblecito, esboza retratos de los que serian victimas de una muerte tan espantosa como insospechada, acompaña a la policia en las pesquisas que condujeron al descubrimiento y detencion de Hickcock y Smith y, sobre todo, se concentra en los dos criminales psicopatas hasta construir dos personajes perfectamente perfilados, a los que el lector llegara a conocer intimamente. "A sangre fria", que fue bautizada, pionera y provocativamente, por Capote como una non fiction novel, es un libro estremecedor que, desde la fecha misma de su publicacion, se convirtio en un clasico.

Summer Crossing, In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Collin Fenwick es el joven huérfano que vive con las solteronas Talbo: Verena, la mujer más rica del pueblo, y Dolly, que ha hipotecado su vida al cuidado de su hermana y de la casa. Ambas padecen de soledad. Dolly solo halla distraccion en los ratos que pasa con Catherine, una negra que realiza las labores domesticas. La intervencion de un picaro que desvalija a Verena desencadena el acontecimiento central: Dolly y Catherine abandonan la casa y se instalan, junto al joven Collin, en la precaria cabaña construida en la cima de un enorme arbol. Este hecho insolito provocara una division en el seno del pueblo.

With a major literary event, this is a collection of never-before-published short stories from one of America's most beloved writers. In a small Southern town, a teenage girl anxiously waits for her date to arrive. A woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lover's eyes. Best friends on the Upper East Side discuss the theoretical murder of husbands. In these never-before-published stories, set in the rural South and the cosmopolitan New York of the 1940s, written by Truman Capote in his teens and twenties, the American master is already recognizable. This splendid collection offers readers the opportunity to see the confident first steps of one of the twentieth century's most acclaimed writers.

The early fiction of one of the nations most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature.Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his teens and early twenties, before he penned such classics as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffanys, and In Cold Blood. This collection of more than a dozen pieces showcases the young Capote developing the unique voice and sensibility that would make him one of the twentieth centurys most original writers.Spare yet heartfelt, these stories summon our compassion and feeling at every turn. Capote was always drawn to outsiderswomen, children, African Americans, the poorbecause he felt like one himself from a very early age. Here we see Capotes powers of empathy developing as he depicts his characters struggling at the margins of their known worlds. A boy experiences the violence of adulthood when he pursues an escaped convict into the woods. Petty jealousies lead to a life-altering event for a popular girl at Miss Burkes Academy for Young Ladies. In a time of extraordinary loss, a woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lovers eyes.In these stories we see early signs of Capotes genius for creating unforgettable characters built of complexity and yearning. Young women experience the joys and pains of new love. Urbane sophisticates are worn down by cynicism. Children and adults alike seek understanding in a treacherous world. There are tales of crime and violence; of racism and injustice; of poverty and despair. And there are tales of generosity and tenderness; compassion and connection; wit and wonder. Above all there is the developing voice of a writer born in the Deep South who will use and eventually break from that tradition to become a literary figure like no other.With a foreword by the celebrated New Yorker critic Hilton Als, this volume of early stories is essential for understanding how a boy from Monroeville, Alabama, became a legend in American literature.

The early fiction of one of the nation s most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his teens and early twenties, before he penned such classics as" Other Voices, Other Rooms, " "Breakfast at Tiffany s, "and "In Cold Blood." This collection of more than a dozen pieces showcases the young Capote developing the unique voice and sensibility that would make him one of the twentieth century s most original writers. Spare yet heartfelt, these stories summon our compassion and feeling at every turn. Capote was always drawn to outsiders women, children, African Americans, the poor because he felt like one himself from a very early age. Here we see Capote s powers of empathy developing as he depicts his characters struggling at the margins of their known worlds. A boy experiences the violence of adulthood when he pursues an escaped convict into the woods. Petty jealousies lead to a life-altering event for a popular girl at Miss Burke s Academy for Young Ladies. In a time of extraordinary loss, a woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lover s eyes. In these stories we see early signs of Capote s genius for creating unforgettable characters built of complexity and yearning. Young women experience the joys and pains of new love. Urbane sophisticates are worn down by cynicism. Children and adults alike seek understanding in a treacherous world. There are tales of crime and violence; of racism and injustice; of poverty and despair. And there are tales of generosity and tenderness; compassion and connection; wit and wonder. Above all there is the developing voice of a writer born in the Deep South who will use and eventually break from that tradition to become a literary figure like no other. With a foreword by the celebrated "New Yorker "critic Hilton Als, this volume of early stories is essential for understanding how a boy from Monroeville, Alabama, became a legend in American literature. Advance praise for "The Early Stories of Truman Capote" "" These ten-plus stories were written when Capote was a teenager and young man and will shed light on his subsequent work while remaining sharply observed pleasures in their own right. "Library Journal " [A] gathering of the great American prose stylist s earliest pieces, published for the first time . . . Students of both Capote and the short story will find this instructive and entertaining. "Kirkus Reviews""

This is a story that was first published in 1958. This wacky hillbilly-turned-playgirl who lives in a Manhattan brownstone shares not only his philosophy of freedom and acceptance of human irregularities but also his fears and anxieties--'the mean reds' she calls them. For her the cure is to jump into a taxi and head for Tiffany's; nothing bad could happen, she says, amid 'that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets, '' and her dream is to have breakfast in that soothing setting.

Qui no ha sentit la curiositat d'arribar-se a la joieria Tiffany's? Un món en què els collarets de diamants conviuen ingènuament amb la màfia, en què l'interès no desvirtua l'amistat, en què tot és p

El deslumbrante y polémico debut de Capote como novelista. Con Otras voces, otros ámbitos, el jovencísimo Truman Capote hizo su deslumbrante y polémico debut como novelista y se convirtió en lo que fue hasta su muerte: el enfant terrible de la literatura norteamericana de su epoca.Una novela con un universo morbido e inquietante, unas vividas e inesperadas imagenes de extraordinaria belleza y unos personajes que, en palabras del gran critico frances Maurice Edgar Coindreau, poseen las virtudes alucinatorias de las figuras de los sueños, y para ellos, como para Capote, el sueño es la unica realidad, y el mundo que nos rodea no es sino trompe l'il y apariencias varias.Otras voces, otros ambitos es la historia de un hijo que busca a su padre, de un joven en busca de su identidad. Un muchacho de trece años, Joel Knoz, a la muerte de su madre en Nueva Orleans, es enviado a casa de su padre, a quien jamas conocio. En una ruinosa mansion de una aislada plantacion en el profundo Sur viven, con el padre de Joel, su madrastra, Miss Amy, el misterioso primo Randoplh personaje capital de la novela y la criada, la negrita Missouri. Los escasos vecinos son personajes estramboticos, fuera de lo comun: las gemelas Idabel y Florabel, el diminuto centenario Jesus Fever, su nieta Zoo apuñalada por su novio el dia de la boda y Little Sunshine, el negro ermitaño.Finalmente, Joel conoce a su padre y se siente decepcionado, atrapado: pretende huir de este extraño universo hasta que descubre, de pronto, el sentido de los dramas que rodeaban su infancia.En palabras de su biografo Geral Clarke, en este libro Truman Capote describio, bajo el disfraz de la ficcion, el angustioso viaje que termino con el descubrimiento de su identidad como hombre, como homosexual y como artista.Y aunque cuando la novela aparecio fue muy discutida por la critica de la epoca, que le acuso de decadente, pretencioso y degenerado, no faltaron las opiniones perspicaces, como la de John W. Aldridge: Es muy posible que Otras voces, otros ambitos sea, en materia de estilo, la novela novedad mas importante de la joven generacion. Es muy posible que la aparicion de esta novela sea el acontecimiento mas dichoso del que pueda beneficiarse nuestra literatura desde Hemingway, asi como el antidoto mas poderoso, desde Faulkner, contra la atonia por exceso de simplificacion, cuyo origen se remonta a Hemingway.

Holly Golightly es, quizás, el más seductor personaje creado por este maestro de seducción que fue Truman Capote. Atractiva sin ser guapa, tras rechazar una carrera de actriz en Hollywood, Holly se convierte en una estrella del Nueva York más sofisticado; bebiendo cócteles y rompiendo corazones, parece ganarse la vida pidiendo suelto para sus expediciones al tocador en los restaurantes y clubes de moda, y vive rodeada de los tipos más disparatados, desde un mafioso que cumple condena en Sing Sing y al que visita semanalmente, hasta un millonario caprichoso de afinidades nazis, pasando por un viejo barman secretamente enamorado de ella. Mezcla de picardía e inocencia, de astucia y autenticidad, Holly vive en la provisionalidad permanente, sin pasado, no queriendo pertenecer a nada ni a nadie, sintiéndose desterrada en todas partes pese al glamour que la rodea, y soñando siempre en ese paraíso que para ella es Tiffany’s, la famosa joyería neoyorquina. Desayuno en Tiffany’s es una extraordinaria novela corta que, por sí sola, bastaría para consagrar a un autor.