Too Brief a Treat

¸±±êÌâ: The Letters of Truman Capote

ISBN: 9780375702419

³ö°æÉç: Vintage

³ö°æÄê: 2005-09-13

Ò³Êý: 487

¶¨¼Û: 138.00Ôª

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The private letters of Truman Capote, lovingly assembled here for the first time by acclaimed Capote biographer Gerald Clarke, provide an intimate, unvarnished portrait of one of the twentieth century¡¯s most colorful and fascinating literary figures.

Capote was an inveterate letter writer. He wrote letters as he spoke: emphatically, spontaneously, and passionately. Spanning more than four decades, his letters are the closest thing we have to a Capote autobiography, showing us the uncannily self-possessed na?f who jumped headlong into the post¡ªWorld War II New York literary scene; the more mature Capote of the 1950s; the Capote of the early 1960s, immersed in the research and writing of In Cold Blood; and Capote later in life, as things seemed to be unraveling. With cameos by a veritable who¡¯s who of twentieth century glitterati, Too Brief a Treat shines a spotlight on the life and times of an incomparable American writer.