Breakfast at Tiffany's
Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's. In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape—her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.
This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory,” which the Saturday Review called “one of the most moving stories in our language.” It is a tale of two innocents—a small boy and the old woman who is his best friend—whose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.
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This is the first time I have read this book fully cover-to-cover and it was delightful and immersive! I must also add that what makes this story both uplifting and heart wrenching is the originality of its central character "Holly Golightly" an enigma or perhaps a "phony" or maybe just a young girl addicted to escapism...both naive and worldly and one that is utterly captivating and yet disappointing...childish and wise - really an assortment of dualisms...I love the fantastical elements of this story and its stark and harsh realities....you really are left with the same feeling as the narrator - longing for the presence of an absence that never truly existed and yet inevitably mattered....
Not at all what I was expecting. Three stars for the literary elements, but I didn't really like the story. At all.
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