Truman Capote: A Christmas Memory, Gebunden
A Christmas Memory
- Publisher:
- Random House Publishing Group, 11/1996
- Binding:
- Gebunden, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780679602378
- Item number:
- 5742924
- Volume:
- 128 Pages
- Weight:
- 208 g
- Format:
- 190 x 126 mm
- Thickness:
- 20 mm
- Release date:
- 12.11.1996
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Blurb
Together in one festive, keepsake volume, here are the three holiday stories that Truman Capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction.
"A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor" were inspired by Capote's early years with a family of distant relatives in rural Alabama. These two childhood tales pay loving tribute to an eccentric old-maid cousin, Miss Sook Faulk, who became Capote's best friend. In "A Christmas Memory," Miss Sook, Buddy (the narrator), and their dog, Queenie, celebrate the yuletide in a hilariously tipsy state. In the poignant reminiscence "One Christmas," six-year-old Buddy journeys to New Orleans for a reunion with his estranged father that shatters many illusions. And in "The Thanksgiving Visitor," Miss Sook invites an unexpected guest to the holiday meal: the school bully, Odd Henderson, whom Buddy calls "the meanest human creature in my experience."
Distinguished by Capote's delicate interplay of childhood sensibility and recollective vision, these three classics are gems that celebrate the unique bonds of friends and family.
Biography
Truman Capote, geb. am 30.9.1924 in New Orleans, wuchs in den Südstaaten auf und ging 1934 nach New York. Dort entdeckte Capote das Theater und verschaffte sich schnell Eintritt in die High Society. Mit 18 Jahren begann Capote als Redaktionsgehilfe beim New Yorker zu arbeiten, bevor ihm 1945 mit einer Kurzgeschichte der literarische Durchbruch gelang. Ausgezeichnet mit vielen renommierten Preisen spalteten seine Romane die Kritik sowie die Leser: Er galt in der Gesellschaft als enfant terrible. Seine Bücher, aber auch die Romanverfilmungen brachten ihm Weltruhm ein, der bis heute andauert. Truman Capote starb 1984 in Los Angeles.
