The Complete Stories

"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 golden 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 that many writers can't do at all. . . . [He] summons the sensory world in its bewildering, inexhaustible richness." -"Los Angeles Times Book Review" "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 golden 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 that many writers can't do at all. . . . [He] summons the sensory world in its bewildering, inexhaustible richness." -"Lo

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