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Too Brief a Treat : The Letters of Truman Capote by Truman Capote (2005, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100375702415

ISBN-139780375702419

eBay Product ID (ePID)45418156

Product Key Features

Book TitleToo Brief a Treat : the Letters of Truman Capote

Number of Pages512 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

TopicLetters, Literary, American / General

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections

AuthorTruman Capote

Book SeriesVintage International Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight14.7 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

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 "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, "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 Edition22

Dewey Decimal813/.54 B

SynopsisThe 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 naif who jumped headlong into the post-World 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 seem 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., 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 naïf who jumped headlong into the post-World 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 seem 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., 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-World 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 seem 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3568.O243