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Capote's Unique Literary Gifts on Display in the Original Story of Holly Golightly and Three Other Tales | Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories | Truman Capote

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	• Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories Truman Capote Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, 2000 - 178 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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Flamboyant characters drawn with rare perception

This story of a single young woman beset with ambition, beauty, questionable judgment, and an impecunious past is crafted with imagination and attention to detail. In a big city, Holly Golightly bounces through the very short (~110 small pages) novel among a surprisingly realistic cast of larger-than-life supporting characters.

There's no excuse for not reading this classic.

Three short stories round out the volume. The first two short stories weren't anything special, but the third was very good, a touching tale of an orphaned 7-year-old living with only his elderly handicapped-since-childhood aunt as a friend.

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Good story

In a way it's hard to believe this short story is what inspired the iconic movie. Especially, since Tiffany's plays even a smaller part here than the movie. It was hard to get Audrey Hepburn out of mind while reading this, because this book takes place twenty years earlier-during the WWII. All material written in that time was always so serious (The greatest generation-they say.) that it was hard to picture such a flighty and worldly personalty for that time. Though I have no doubt that it must be true. It just takes an adjustment. Overall, it's a good story. I wish I could say the same for the three additional stories in this book. To me those, House of Flowers, Diamond Guitar and a Christmas Memory were a waste of time and a disappointment. But this book is still worth the purchase price for Breakfast at Tiffany's alone.

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Capote's Unique Literary Gifts on Display in the Original Story of Holly Golightly and Three Other Tales

Those who know Truman Capote's alternately poignant and comic 1958 novella only through the memorable 1961 Audrey Hepburn film directed by Blake Edwards may be surprised to find that Holly Golightly, in her original incarnation, is recalled in a flashback as a nineteen-year old Manhattan "party girl" during WWII. The still provocative story is really a memory piece fifteen years later by the narrator, a struggling writer with no name except the one given to him by Holly - "Fred" - after her beloved brother. The rest of the elements will be familiar to anyone who has seen the movie, though Capote is more forthright in describing Holly's hedonistic behavior than film censors could allow in the early sixties. Revealed gradually is her background as Lulumae Barnes, a hillbilly child-bride to Doc Golightly, written with more comedy than pathos here, as well as her erratic, amoral journey to Hollywood as a starlet and then as a "companion" to wealthy men in New York who give her cash for the powder room.

Eccentric characters fill in the corners like Mr. Yunioshi, the Japanese fashion photographer who lives upstairs, and Sally Tomato, the gangster who passes messages to Holly while serving time in Sing Sing. Capote has less affinity for the romantic conventions found in the movie as he more comfortably explores the tale of two emotionally stunted people who find momentary support from one another. The melancholy ending is testament to that, and as such, the book is well worth reading for Capote's gift for illustrative prose. Three very brief stories from Capote are also included with the book, all with their charms - "The House of Flowers", the fanciful tale of two warring bordellos in the West Indies; "A Diamond Guitar", a tender story of a prison inmate who attempts to use his glass-diamonded guitar as a means to escape; and "A Christmas Memory", a childhood remembrance of his distant cousin embodied by the elderly Sook.

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