Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of "Breakfast at
Tiffany's and "In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social
life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the
author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were
heartfelt, as grotesque as they were compassionate. Now, on the
occasion of what would have been his eightieth birthday, the Modern
Library presents the first collection that includes all of Capote's
short fiction-a volume that confirms his status as one of the
masters of this form.
Among the selections are "A Tree of Night," in which an innocent
student, sitting on a train beside a slatternly woman and her
deaf-mute companion, enters a seductive nightmare that brings back
the deepest fears of childhood . . . "House of Flowers," the
inspiration for a celebrated Broadway musical, which tells of a
superstitious prostitute who learns to love in a way no one else
can ever understand . . . the holiday perennial "A Christmas
Memory," famously adapted into a superb made-for-TV movie . . . and
"The Bargain," Capote's melancholy, never-before-published 1950
story about a suburban housewife's shifting fortunes.
From the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children
to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and
people of Capote's oeuvre are captured in this first-ever
compendium. "The Collected Stories of Truman Capote should restore
its author to a place above mere celebrity, to the highest levels
of American letters.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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