A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote's life's work in the form he called his "great love," The Complete Stories confirms Capote's status as a master of the short story.
"To best experience Capote the stylist, one must go back to his short fiction. . . . One experiences as strongly as ever his gift for concrete abstraction and his spectacular observancy." -The New Yorker
Ranging 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 here, in stories as elegant as they are heartfelt, as haunting as they are compassionate. Reading them reminds us of the miraculous gifts of a beloved American original.
| ISBN: | 9781400096916 |
| Publication date: | 13th September 2005 |
| Author: | Truman Capote |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Series: | Vintage International |
| Genres: |
Shorter Reads Classic fiction: general and literary General Fiction |
A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote's life's work in the form he called his "great love," The Complete Stories confirms Capote's status as a master of the short story.
"To best experience Capote the stylist, one must go back to his short fiction. . . . One experiences as strongly as ever his gift for concrete abstraction and his spectacular observancy." -The New Yorker
Ranging 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 here, in stories as elegant as they are heartfelt, as haunting as they are compassionate. Reading them reminds us of the miraculous gifts of a beloved American original.
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote features in the following genres: Shorter Reads, Classic fiction: general and literary, General Fiction
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote was written by Truman Capote and published by Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote has 320 pages
Yes it is part of Vintage International series