The Complete Stories of Truman Capote

ISBN-13: 9781400096916 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str.

Truman Capote; Reynolds Price

Opis

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.
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.

Recenzje

  An abundance of riches. . . . It is not hard at all to open to any page . . . and be amused, moved, intrigued. Newsday

  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

It is a stunning experience to reread this fiction . . . and to realize how very golden this boy was. . . . We are in the presence of a tremendous talent, and a fully mature technique as well. Norman Mailer s judgment that Capote was the most perfect writer of their generation he writes the best sentences word for word, rhythm upon rhythm seems true and just. The New Criterion

Capote does some things perfectly than many writers can t do at all. . . . He summons the sensory world in its bewildering, inexhaustible richness. Los Angeles Times Book Review

Spis treści

Introduction: Usable Answers by Reynolds Price

The Walls Are Cold (1943)
A Mink of One s Own (1944)
The Shape of Things (1944)
Jug of Silver (1945)
Miram (1945)
My Side of the Matter (1945)
Preacher s Legend (1945)
A Tree of Night (1945)
The Headless Hawk (1946)
Shut a Final Door (1947)
Children on Their Birthdays (1948)
Master Misery (1949)
The Bargain (1950)
A Diamond Guitar (1950)
House of Flowers (1951)
A Christmas Memory (1956)
Among the Paths to Eden (1960)
The Thanksgiving Visitor (1967)
Mojave (1975)
One Christmas (1982)

Story Credits

O autorze

TRUMAN CAPOTE was born in New Orleans on September 30, 1924. In 1948 his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, was published to international critical acclaim, assuring Capote a place among the prominent postwar American writers. He won the O. Henry Memorial Short Story Prize twice and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His other works include Breakfast at Tiffany s, The Grass Harp, and the nonfiction masterpiece In Cold Blood. He died on August 25, 1984.

REYNOLDS PRICE is the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University and the distinguished author of more than twenty-five books of fiction, poetry, drama, and essays. He lives in North Carolina.