Truman Capote : enfant terrible
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Truman Capote : enfant terrible
Continuum, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123) and index
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Description
This is a short and pungent New Yorker-style profile/extended essay of one of the great literary talents and some would say underachievers of American literature.Robert Emmet Long presents a full account of Truman Capote's early life, making use of Capote's unpublished papers. The topics covered include his strange relationship with his beautiful but immature mother (she was sixteen years old when Capote was born), as well as his friendships with a series of rich and talented women.Combining biographical insights with literary criticism, "Truman Capote, Enfant Terrible" presents a grand overview of a complex and fascinating author: one who remained a child in appearance and behavior; a Southerner who strayed from the South, a celebrity while living the most solitary realm of his vast imagination.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Early Years to Capote's Departure for Europe 1949
- 2 Nine High School Stories ("Hilda," "If I Forget You," "Lucy," "Saturday Night," "Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child," "Swamp Terror," "The Moth in the Flame," "Miss Belle Rankin," "Louise")
- The Tree of Night and Other Stories
- Summer Crossing
- 3 Other Voices, Other Rooms
- 4 Travels Including Local Color, Short Fiction, and Reportage
- 5 The Grass Harp--Novel and Play
- 6 The Films: Beat the Devil and Indiscretions of an American Housewife
- 7 Observations - with Photographs by Richard Avedon
- 8 In Cold Blood
- 9 The Late Years in the Public Eye
- 10 Answered Prayers
- Works
- Works Consulted
- Index.
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