Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories
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....
I greatly enjoy Truman Capote's writing skills. However, I did not enjoy this book. Maybe it was due to the fact I was expecting it to be closer to the movie than it actually was. It was a great story, but I was lost in some of the story. I guess this would be the case in which the movie adaptation completely ruined my reading of this story.
I really don't know why people like this.
She's unlikable and annoying.
And the writing is offensive.
Gross
She's unlikable and annoying.
And the writing is offensive.
Gross
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