Breakfast at Tiffany's
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Publisher Description
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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
With the irrepressible Holly Golightly, Truman Capote identified an enduring American archetype. During World War II in New York City, an unnamed narrator makes the unwitting acquaintance of Golightly, a plucky master of self-invention who clings to the belief that a playfully mischievous present can obscure a painful past. In the mold of The Catcher in the Rye or The Great Gatsby, Breakfast at Tiffany’s immortalizes a flawed and magnetic character whose inner world is only as messed up as the actual world she’s living in.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Golden Globe winning actor Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under) gives a warm reading of Capote's classic novella. The story is related by an unnamed narrator looking back at the autumn of 1943, when he lived in a brownstone on Manhattan's Upper East Side and befriended his neighbor Holly Golightly. The enigmatic and beguiling young woman is a free spirit with no discernible means of support other than the kindness of the wealthy men who take her to fancy restaurants, swanky parties, and offer the occasional gift. For the next year, the narrator finds himself entranced, intoxicated, and exhausted by Holly's lifestyle, only to have their companionship end when circumstances extract her from the city and his life. Hall brings just the right tone to his narration. His characterizations are simply but effectively portrayed. He narrates the story with an earnest wistfulness that fully embodies the innocent infatuation of youth, but at the same time manages to infuse it with a sweet touch of the nostalgic melancholy. It is a solid, heartfelt performance that never lapses into corny sentimentality and will stay with the listener well after the last chapter. A Vintage paperback.
Customer Reviews
Undeniably unique, gifted vision and writing style
Though at times hard to follow, it always seems to be going in directions that feel very proper and inspired.
Disturbing
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (BAT) was only the first portion of the book. The remainder was a mix of completely non-related short stories. The BAT portion was interesting; the remainder was less so. I guess I was unaware this was a novella. Anyway, I was disappointed having heard about BAT for many years and happy to have had the opportunity to finally read it. No thanks for any other Truman Capote books.
Vapid
But for the fact that Hollywood did some interesting things with his concepts, Capote would not be remembered today. Avoid. Life’s too short for this.