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Portraits and Observations - The Essays of Truman Capote (Paperback)
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Portraits and Observations - The Essays of Truman Capote (Paperback)
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Perhaps no twentieth-century writer was so observant and graceful a
chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. "Portraits and
Observations "is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays
ever published by this most beloved of writers. Included are such
masterpieces of narrative nonfiction as "The Muses Are Heard" and
the short nonfiction novel "Handcarved Coffins," as well as many
long-out-of-print essays, including portraits of Mae West, Humphrey
Bogart, and Marilyn Monroe. From his travel sketches of Brooklyn,
New Orleans, and Hollywood, written when he was twenty-two, to the
author's last written words, composed the day before his death in
1984, the recently discovered "Remembering Willa Cather,"
"Portraits and Observations" puts on display the full spectrum of
Truman Capote's brilliance. Certainly Capote was, as Somerset
Maugham famously called him, "a stylist of the first quality." But
as the pieces gathered here remind us, he was also an artist of
remarkable substance.
Praise for "Portraits and Observations"
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE "WASHINGTON POST"
BOOK WORLD
"A must-have treasure for Capote fans . . . These are delicious,
dramatic, and tender nonfiction portraits and tales."
-NPR's "Morning Edition"
"A wonderful volume . . . Nearly every page can be read with real
pleasure. . . . No matter what his subject, Capote's] canny,
careful art gives it warm and breathing life"
-"The Washington Post Book World"
"Every piece is a treasure. . . . Pages and pages of remarkably
evocative, careful and well-observed prose delineate, ] in a
measured and elegant manner, one of the most remarkable American
literary lives of the twentieth century."
-Jane Smiley, "Los Angeles Times Book Review"
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