Truman Capote Enfant Terrible

AvRobert Emmet Long

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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This is a short and pungent New Yorker-style profile/extended essay of one of the great literary talents and some would say underachievers of American literature.Robert Emmet Long presents a full account of Truman Capote's early life, making use of Capote's unpublished papers. The topics covered include his strange relationship with his beautiful but immature mother (she was sixteen years old when Capote was born), as well as his friendships with a series of rich and talented women.Combining biographical insights with literary criticism, "Truman Capote, Enfant Terrible" presents a grand overview of a complex and fascinating author: one who remained a child in appearance and behavior; a Southerner who strayed from the South, a celebrity while living the most solitary realm of his vast imagination.

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Utgivningsdatum:2008-08-15
Mått:138 x 216 x 12 mm
Vikt:300 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:144
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780826427632

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Robert Emmet Long is a recognized critic of American and British literature, and a commentator on the performing arts. He is author or editor of some 30 books and he has contributed over 400 articles to many journals and magazines, including The Nation, Commonweal, and Saturday Review.

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"Truman Capote's offbeat heroine Holly Golightly tells us that she'd "rather have cancer than a dishonest heart." If her creator was theatrical and flamboyant, he was also honest, courageous, uncompromising in his fictions, vignettes, sketches, essays. Robert Emmet Long honors his subject by way of a masterful ability to cut through to the generative poetic centers of the work. Truman Capote: Enfant Terrible is a penetrating and seamless study that illuminates Capote's texts even while dramatizing his presence." - William Heyen, author of Shoah Train: Poems, National Book Award Finalist

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1 The Early Years to Capote's Departure for Europe 1949; 2 Nine High School Stories ("Hilda," "If I Forget You," "Lucy," "Saturday Night," "Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child," "Swamp Terror," "The Moth in the Flame," "Miss Belle Rankin," "Louise"); The Tree of Night and Other Stories; Summer Crossing; 3 Other Voices, Other Rooms; 4 Travels Including Local Color, Short Fiction, and Reportage; 5 The Grass Harp--Novel and Play; 6 The Films: Beat the Devil and Indiscretions of an American Housewife; 7 Observations - with Photographs by Richard Avedon; 8 In Cold Blood; 9 The Late Years in the Public Eye; 10 Answered Prayers; Works; Works Consulted; Index.