Portraits and Observations

Portraits and Observations
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From the Modern Libraryâ€™s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capoteâ€”also available are Breakfast at Tiffanyâ€™s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), In Cold Blood, and The Complete Stories

Perhaps no twentieth-century writer was so observant and graceful a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers. Included are such masterpieces of narrative nonfiction as â€œThe Muses Are Heardâ€ and the short nonfiction novel â€œHandcarved Coffins,â€ as well as many long-out-of-print essays, including portraits of Mae West, Humphrey Bogart, and Marilyn Monroe. From his travel sketches of Brooklyn, New Orleans, and Hollywood, written when he was twenty-two, to the authorâ€™s last written words, â€œRemembering Willa Cather,â€ composed the day before his death in 1984, Portraits and Observations puts on display the full spectrum of Truman Capoteâ€™s brilliance. Certainly Capote was, as Somerset Maugham famously called him, â€œa stylist of the first quality.â€ But as the pieces gathered here remind us, he was also an artist of remarkable substance.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Modern Library
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber part_0812994396
Color Pink
ReleaseDate 2013-04-23
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812994391

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Modern Library
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	part_0812994396
Color	Pink
ReleaseDate	2013-04-23
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812994391

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