Breakfast At Tiffany’s & Other Voices, Other Rooms: Two Novels by Truman Capote

Breakfast At Tiffany’s & Other Voices, Other Rooms: Two Novels

Truman Capote

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.

Breakfast at Tiffany’sIncludes a sadistic lesbian neighbor who brings on violent events. Everything very subtle and indirect


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Details

ISBN 9780812994360
Genre Short Story Collection (Single Author); Checklist by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Fiction
Copyright Date 1958
Publication Date 2013
Publisher Penguin
Format Hardcover
No. of Pages 304
Language English
Rating NotRated
Subject Fiction / Classics; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Short Stories
BookID 1498

Author: LFWBooks