Capote, Truman.
Summary: In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; 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,"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Summary: "Catapulted from a childhood spent in a Missouri orphanage to the dizzying peaks of New York high society, the destitute and debauched writer P. B. Jones spends his days moving between the paltry cell of a Manhattan Y.M.C.A. and the opulent playgrounds of the metropolitan elite. Though Jones struggles to make ends meet, his effortless associations with the moneyed and powerful thrust him into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern Library 2024
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Contents: New Orleans -- New York -- Brooklyn -- Hollywood -- Haiti -- To Europe -- Ischia -- Tangier -- A ride through Spain -- Fontana Vecchia -- Style: and the Japanese -- The muses are heard -- The Duke in his domain -- From Observations: Richard Avedon, John Huston, Charlie Chaplin, A gathering of swans, Pablo Picasso, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Cocteau and André Gide, Mae West, Louis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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Summary: The protagonists of these nine short stories learn to accept the harsh loneliness of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1993
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Summary: The celebrated author of In Cold Blood returns to the short story in a collection which shows both continuity with Capote's past concerns and perspectives and new turns in style and approach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1980
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Summary: Spanning his entire life, this collection of private letters by the acclaimed author includes Capote's correspondence with such notables as David O. Selznick, Edith Sitwell, Cecil Beaton, Christopher Isherwood, and Bennett Cerf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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Summary: Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the sacredness of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Summary: On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2006
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Summary: Available for the first time in a single volume are the three holiday stories that Truman Capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction. Two of these childhood memoirs - "A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor" - center on the author's early years with a family of distant relatives in rural Alabama. Both pay loving tribute to an eccentric old-maid cousin, Miss Sook...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1996
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Summary: "In a small Southern town, a teenage girl anxiously waits for her date to arrive. A little boy meets his dream dog in Central Park. A woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lover's eyes. Best friends discuss the theoretical murder of husbands. In these never-before-published stories, written by Truman Capote when he was in his teens and twenties, Capote-the-Writer is already...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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Summary: Recreates the slaying of the Clutter family of Kansas, and the capture, trial, and execution of their murderers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1994
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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Manhattan socialite Grady McNeil is free to pursue her illicit romance with Clyde Manzer, a parking lot attendant from Brooklyn, when her parents decide to leave her alone for the summer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPSummary: Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote's greatest masterpiece, an epic novel of New York City's glittering jet-set society, following his smashing success with Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. Instead, it sparked his downfall. Through access to never-before-heard audio archives and interviews with Capote's friends and enemies, including Dick Cavett, Lauren Bacall, Norman Mailer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CAPSummary: The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of iconic American writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams explodes onto the screen in this innovative dual-portrait documentary. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Love, Cecil, and Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel) masterfully collages a wealth of archival material, including dishy talk show appearances with David Frost and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRUSummary: A hard hitting docu-drama about two ex-cons who ruthlessly murder a Kansas family in 1959 in order to steal their non-existent stash of money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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Summary: When Truman Capote gains access to New York high society, he builds an unlikely friendship with socialite Babe Paley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A romantic comedy featuring Holly Golightly, an eccentric New York City playgirl, and her neighbor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRESummary: In 1959, Truman Capote was a popular writer for The New Yorker. He learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to do research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, "In Cold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CAP RATED RSummary: Billy Bob is a thirteen-year-old boy growing up in a small Alabama town in 1947. Billy Bob's best friend is Preacher Star, who has a pronounced mischievous streak. When Lily Jane moves into town with her mother, a strange woman who never speaks, both Billy Bob and Preacher are entranced. Billy Bob and Preacher become rivals for Lily Jane's affections. As Billy Bob struggles with first love, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Family Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHISummary: While researching his book "In cold blood", writer Truman Capote develops a relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and, in particular Perry Smith, while both men waited for their date of execution on death row.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INFTruman Capote,H Arlen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ed.Morris 1954
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: An offbeat tale of adventure and suspense involving the passengers on a steamer who attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a parcel of land in East Africa believed to be rich with uranium deposits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Platinum Disc Corp. 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BEASummary: Three films featuring Audrey Hepburn. In Breakfast at Tiffany's she plays Holly Golightly, the girl on a quest to marry a millionaire, in Roman Holiday, she's a rebellious modern-day princess who inadvertently falls in love with an American newspaperman, in Sabrina, she returns home from Paris all grown up and ready to beguile the Larrabee brothers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2007