The early stories of Truman Capote
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The early stories of Truman Capote
（Penguin modern classics）（Penguin fiction）
Penguin Classics/Penguin, 2017, c2015
- : [pbk.]
Available at 2 libraries
Contents of Works
- Parting of the way
- Mill Store
- Hilda
- Miss Belle Rankin
- If I forget you
- The moth in the flame
- Swamp terror
- The familiar stranger
- Louise
- This is for Jamie
- Lucy
- Traffic west
- Kindred spirits
- Where the world begins
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Description
'Breathtaking ... The stories are special. They stand in their own right as lovely vignettes of the lives of the lonely, broken and troubled' Andrew Johnson, Independent
Written when Truman Capote was in his teens and twenties, these recently-discovered short stories give a rare insight into an American icon. Tales of disappointed lovers, ageing spinsters, hoboes and murderous housewives, of yearning, poverty, despair, compassion, wit and wonder, they show us the boy from Alabama who became one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary voices.
'An intriguing glimpse of Capote as a boy: precocious, provocative, spirited and strange, a "pocket Merlin" spinning tall tales' Olivia Laing, New Statesman
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