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Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote par Truman Capote : d'occasion
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Publication Date
- 2004-09-21
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN
- 9780375501333
À propos de ce produit
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375501339
ISBN-13
9780375501333
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30764564
Product Key Features
Book Title
Too Brief a Treat : the Letters of Truman Capote
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Letters, Literary, American / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
29.3 Oz
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-050313
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Dead funny and crackling with gossip." --Vanity Fair "Here we see Capote at his witchy, bitchy best, leaving us longing for more." --The Washington Post World "Chatty, funny, affectionate and wildly interested in the big world--the bigger the better--Capote the correspondent is irresistible." -- Newsday, "Dead funny and crackling with gossip." -Vanity Fair "Here we see Capote at his witchy, bitchy best, leaving us longing for more." -The Washington Post World "Chatty, funny, affectionate and wildly interested in the big world-the bigger the better-Capote the correspondent is irresistible." - Newsday, "Dead funny and crackling with gossip." Vanity Fair "Chatty, funny, affectionate and wildly interested in the big worldthe bigger the betterCapote the correspondent is irresistible." Newsday "Capote's letters [are] as addictive as potato chips, often very funny and reflect a gift for empathy." Los Angeles Times Book Review "Here we see Capote at his witchy, bitchy best, leaving us longing for more." The Washington Post Book World From the Trade Paperback edition., "Dead funny and crackling with gossip." Vanity Fair "Chatty, funny, affectionate and wildly interested in the big worldthe bigger the betterCapote the correspondent is irresistible." Newsday "Capote's letters [are] as addictive as potato chips, often very funny and reflect a gift for empathy." Los Angeles Times Book Review "Here we see Capote at his witchy, bitchy best, leaving us longing for more." The Washington Post Book World, "Dead funny and crackling with gossip." --Vanity Fair "Here we see Capote at his witchy, bitchy best, leaving us longing for more." --The Washington Post World "Chatty, funny, affectionate and wildly interested in the big world--the bigger the better--Capote the correspondent is irresistible." -- Newsday
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 B
Synopsis
Truman Capote was hailed as one the most meticulous writers in American letters-a part of the Capote mystique is that his precise writing seemed to exist apart from his chaotic life. While the measure of Capote as a writer is best taken through his work, Capote the person is best understood in his personal correspondence with friends, colleagues, lovers, and rivals. In Too Brief a Treat , the acclaimed biographer Gerald Clarke brings together for the first time the private letters of Truman Capote. Encompassing more than four decades, these letters reveal the inner life of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing personalities. As Clarke notes in his Introduction, Capote was an inveterate letter writer who both loved and craved love without inhibition. He wrote letters as he spoke: emphatically, spontaneously, and without reservation. He also wrote them at a breakneck pace, unconcerned with posterity. Thus, in this volume we have perhaps the closest thing possible to an elusive treasure: a Capote autobiography. Through his letters to the likes of William Styron, Gloria Vanderbilt, his publishers and editors, his longtime companion and lover Jack Dunphy, and others, we see Capote in all his life's phases-the uncannily self-possessed na-f who jumped headlong into the dynamic post--World War Two New York literary scene and the more mature, established Capote of the 1950s. Then there is the Capote of the early 1960s, immersed in the research and writing of his masterpiece, In Cold Blood . Capote's correspondence with Kansas detective Alvin Dewey, and with Perry Smith, one of the killers profiled in that work, demonstrates Capote's intense devotion to his craft, while his letters to friends like Cecil Beaton show Capote giddy with his emergence as a flamboyant mass media celebrity after that book's publication. Finally, we see Capote later in his life, as things seemed to be unraveling: when he is disillusioned, isolated by his substance abuse and by personal rivalries. (Ever effusive with praise and affection, Capote could nevertheless carry a grudge like few others). Too Brief a Treat is that uncommon book that gives us a literary titan's unvarnished thoughts. It is both Gerald Clarke's labor of love and a surpassing work of literary history., Truman Capote was hailed as one the most meticulous writers in American letters-a part of the Capote mystique is that his precise writing seemed to exist apart from his chaotic life. In Too Brief a Treat, the acclaimed biographer Gerald Clarke brings together for the first time the private letters of Truman Capote., Truman Capote was hailed as one the most meticulous writers in American letters-a part of the Capote mystique is that his precise writing seemed to exist apart from his chaotic life. While the measure of Capote as a writer is best taken through his work, Capote the person is best understood in his personal correspondence with friends, colleagues, lovers, and rivals. In Too Brief a Treat , the acclaimed biographer Gerald Clarke brings together for the first time the private letters of Truman Capote. Encompassing more than four decades, these letters reveal the inner life of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing personalities. As Clarke notes in his Introduction, Capote was an inveterate letter writer who both loved and craved love without inhibition. He wrote letters as he spoke- emphatically, spontaneously, and without reservation. He also wrote them at a breakneck pace, unconcerned with posterity. Thus, in this volume we have perhaps the closest thing possible to an elusive treasure- a Capote autobiography. Through his letters to the likes of William Styron, Gloria Vanderbilt, his publishers and editors, his longtime companion and lover Jack Dunphy, and others, we see Capote in all his life's phases-the uncannily self-possessed na.f who jumped headlong into the dynamic post-World War Two New York literary scene and the more mature, established Capote of the 1950s. Then there is the Capote of the early 1960s, immersed in the research and writing of his masterpiece, In Cold Blood . Capote's correspondence with Kansas detective Alvin Dewey, and with Perry Smith, one of the killers profiled in that work, demonstrates Capote's intense devotion to his craft, while his letters to friends like Cecil Beaton show Capote giddy with his emergence as a flamboyant mass media celebrity after that book's publication. Finally, we see Capote later in his life, as things seemed to be unraveling- when he is disillusioned, isolated by his substance abuse and by personal rivalries. (Ever effusive with praise and affection, Capote could nevertheless carry a grudge like few others). Too Brief a Treat is that uncommon book that gives us a literary titan's unvarnished thoughts. It is both Gerald Clarke's labor of love and a surpassing work of literary history.
LC Classification Number
PS3505.A59Z495 2004
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