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Truman Capote, 1924 - 1984 Novelist and playwright Truman Streckfus Person was born in 1924 in New Orleans to a salesman and a 16-year-old beauty queen. His parents divorced when he was four years old and was then raised by relatives for a few years in Monroeville. His mother was remarried to a näytä lisää successful businessman, moved to New York, and Truman adopted his stepfather's surname. He attended Greenwich High School and never went to college. When he was 17, Capote's formal education ended when he was employed at The New Yorker magazine. He belived he did not need to go to college to be a writer, since he was writing seriously since age 11. Capote's first novel was "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (1948), which told the story of a boy growing up in the Deep South. "The Grass Harp" (1951) is about a young boy and his elderly cousin discovering that some compromise is necessary for people to live together in a community and was adapted to screen in 1996. The play "The House of Flowers" (1954) is a musical set in a West Indies bordello. Capote then wrote, "Breakfast at Tiffanys" (1958), which tells the story of how Holly Golightly goes to New York seeking happiness. Capote became preoccupied with journalism and, sparked by the murder of a wealthy family in Holcomb, Kansas, began interviewing the locals to recreate the lives of the murderers and their victims. The research and writing for this novel, "In Cold Blood" (1966), took six years for him to complete. Other works of Capote's include the classic "A Christmas Memory" (1966), which is an autobiographical account of a seven-year-old boy, his cousin, and an eccentric old lady, "Music for Chameleons" (1981), which is a collection of short pieces, interviews, stories and conversations that were published in several magazines, and "One Christmas" (1982). On August 26, 1984 in Los Angeles, Truman Capote died of liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication. Published after his death were "Conversations With Capote" (1985) and "Answered Prayers: The Untitled Novel" (1986). (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Aamiainen Tiffanylla (1958) 2,760 kappaletta
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) 2,536 kappaletta
Music for Chameleons (1980) 1,944 kappaletta
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote (2004) 1,099 kappaletta
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) 1,034 kappaletta
Kesän taittuessa (2005) 1,028 kappaletta
A Christmas Memory (1956) 1,026 kappaletta
Ruohojen harppu (1951) 513 kappaletta
The Thanksgiving Visitor (1967) 308 kappaletta
A Capote Reader (1987) 291 kappaletta
The Dogs Bark (1973) 239 kappaletta
The Early Stories of Truman Capote (2015) 185 kappaletta
A Tree of Night and Other Stories (1949) 168 kappaletta
Handcarved Coffins (1901) 126 kappaletta
One Christmas (1983) 110 kappaletta
First and Last (1995) 108 kappaletta
My Side of the Matter (2005) 96 kappaletta
Beat the Devil [1953 film] (1953) — Screenplay — 93 kappaletta
The Muses Are Heard: An Account (1956) 75 kappaletta
The Innocents [1961 film] (1961) — Screenwriter — 74 kappaletta
The duke in his domain (2018) 74 kappaletta
Children on Their Birthdays (1976) 58 kappaletta
A House on the Heights (2002) 52 kappaletta
Ni un pelo de tonto (1995) 51 kappaletta
The Grass Harp [play] (1954) 46 kappaletta
Great Modern Short Novels (1966) — Avustaja — 39 kappaletta
I Remember Grandpa (1985) 36 kappaletta
Observations (1959) 34 kappaletta
Miriam (1945) 28 kappaletta
Marlon Brando: Portraits and Film Stills 1946-1995 (1995) — Essay — 21 kappaletta
One Christmas [1994 TV movie] (1999) — Writer — 19 kappaletta
Local Color (1950) 19 kappaletta
Indiscretion of an American Wife [1953 film] (1954) — Screenwriter — 17 kappaletta
A Diamond Guitar (1950) 17 kappaletta
A Christmas Memory [1997 TV movie] (1997) — Original book — 12 kappaletta
Alle verhalen (2017) 12 kappaletta
Color local (1992) 9 kappaletta
Romanzi e racconti (1999) 9 kappaletta
I racconti (1993) 8 kappaletta
Un Natale e altri racconti (1985) 6 kappaletta
Jug of Silver [short story] (1986) 5 kappaletta
Yachts and Things — Tekijä — 5 kappaletta
Tres contes (2015) 4 kappaletta
Œuvres (2014) 4 kappaletta
Hollywood (1993) 4 kappaletta
Die schönsten Erzählungen (1997) 4 kappaletta
American Short Stories (2003) 3 kappaletta
Werke: 8 Bde: 8 Bände (2007) 2 kappaletta
Inne głosy, inne ściany (2010) 2 kappaletta
Atesteki Güve (2016) 2 kappaletta
The Capote Tapes (2021) 2 kappaletta
Shut a Final Door 2 kappaletta
A Harpa de Ervas Livro 9 (2018) 2 kappaletta
Christmas Memory, A 2 kappaletta
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Sithala le 1 kappale
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Voyages en train (2015) 1 kappale
Una casa a Brooklyn Heights (2007) 1 kappale
Eblouissement 1 kappale
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Tři povídky (2000) 1 kappale
Un été indien 1 kappale
A fűhárfa (1977) 1 kappale
Gosaria Tiffany'S-En (1989) 1 kappale
Kindergeburtstag (2008) 1 kappale
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La Mujer 1 kappale
1962 1 kappale
AFTERWORDS 1 kappale

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Kaksi vakavaa naista (1943) — Johdanto, eräät painokset793 kappaletta
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Avustaja — 461 kappaletta
Points of View: Revised Edition (1966) — Avustaja — 411 kappaletta
My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles (1966) — Johdanto — 407 kappaletta
The New Journalism (1973) — Avustaja — 334 kappaletta
Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker (2000) — Avustaja — 298 kappaletta
The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Avustaja — 291 kappaletta
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Avustaja — 267 kappaletta
Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural (1981) — Avustaja — 196 kappaletta
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories (1969) — Avustaja — 188 kappaletta
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Avustaja, eräät painokset152 kappaletta
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Avustaja — 142 kappaletta
The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (1991) — Avustaja — 121 kappaletta
Murder by Death [1976 film] (1976) — Actor — 116 kappaletta
On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures (1989) — Avustaja — 113 kappaletta
The Norton Book of Travel (1987) — Avustaja — 110 kappaletta
American Short Stories (1976) — Avustaja, eräät painokset95 kappaletta
American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (2009) — Avustaja — 92 kappaletta
Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror (1982) — Avustaja — 79 kappaletta
A Treasury of Modern Mysteries, Volume 2 (1973) — Avustaja — 74 kappaletta
The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (2005) — Avustaja — 73 kappaletta
Great Esquire Fiction (1983) — Avustaja — 70 kappaletta
65 Great Tales of Horror (1981) — Avustaja — 59 kappaletta
New York (1980) — Avustaja — 58 kappaletta
Reading for Pleasure (1957) — Avustaja — 51 kappaletta
An Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories (1989) — Avustaja — 45 kappaletta
The Lucifer Society (1971) — Avustaja — 41 kappaletta
Southern Dogs and Their People (2000) — Avustaja — 39 kappaletta
Round the Christmas Fire: Festive Stories (2013) — Avustaja — 34 kappaletta
Night Shadows: Twentieth-Century Stories of the Uncanny (2001) — Avustaja — 29 kappaletta
Great Short Stories of the World (1965) — Avustaja — 25 kappaletta
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Avustaja — 22 kappaletta
Southern Christmas Literary Classics of the Holidays (1998) — Avustaja — 19 kappaletta
A New Southern Harvest (1957) — Avustaja — 10 kappaletta
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen (1982) — Avustaja — 9 kappaletta
Various Temptations (1948) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
The Best American Short Stories 1947 (1947) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Avustaja — 5 kappaletta
The Grass Harp [1995 film] — Original book — 3 kappaletta
Racconti di cinema (2014) — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta
American Short Stories (1978) — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta
Wives and Lovers — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta
American Short Stories (Oxford Literature Resources) (1992) — Avustaja — 2 kappaletta
Playboy Magazine | January 1989 | 35th Anniversary Issue (1989) — Avustaja — 2 kappaletta
Stories of Sudden Truth (1953) — Avustaja — 1 kappale

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June 2015: Truman Capote, Monthly Author Reads (helmikuu 2019)
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote (Bowie's Top 100), 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (maaliskuu 2016)

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This is the book that seems to set the standard for the true crime genre, so perhaps my expectation was too high. The book’s construction is like many novels, with frequent shifts of scene to follow different characters and their narrative journey. Capote tells the story of the murder of four members of a Kansas family by alternately following the family’s last day, the journey of the murderers toward their crime, their travels following the murders, the investigation, the trial, and the time on death row awaiting the execution date. Capote seems particularly sympathetic toward one of the murderers, Perry Smith, to the point that it ought to raise questions about his objectivity. There are no footnotes or endnotes for readers to verify the facts of the case.… (lisätietoja)
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cbl_tn | 465 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 17, 2024 |
Reason read; American author Challenge 2024. Truman Capote.
Books read by Truman Capote include; In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, A Christmas Memory, and now The Grass Harp.

It is set in the south and involves an orphan boy and two elderly sisters. It was published 1951. It is about family conflict, community, and the need to get back to life and let grievances go.

I didn’t mind the book but I also did not fully engage with it so I am going to call it so-so book. It was made into a musical and a play.

As Collin, 16 years old, stops to listen to the Indian grass whispering in the wind, below the cemetery on the hill, his 60-year-old aunt, Dolly, with whom he lives, tells him it is the grass harp telling the stories of those who are dead.
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Kristelh | 17 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 16, 2024 |
13-year-old Joel Knox leaves his aunt's house in New Orleans, where he has been comfortably cared for since his mother's death, ostensibly having been summoned by the father he has never met. His solo journey into the gothic environs of Southern decay leads him to an obscure backwater where he meets blighted characters haunted by the past, struggling with the present and dubious of the future. Joel has long been able to take himself to a "secret room" in his mind, and often has unbidden visions as well. He puts his observations of the new people in his life to good use, eventually realizing basic truths about himself and what matters to him. A brilliant short novel packed with elegant prose, atmosphere and humanity. If only Capote could have held on to the wise young man inside himself shown to us here.

"...only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves"
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laytonwoman3rd | 47 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 6, 2024 |
Agonized through this depressing curiosity. What did Capote expect of this? What did we expect of him?
½
 
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Lemeritus | 9 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 28, 2024 |

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