Truman Capote - Böcker

Den 15 november 1959 mördas den förmögne farmaren Herb Clutter, hans hustru, hans sjuttonåriga dotter och femtonåriga son på Clutters gård i Västra Kansas. När man hittar dem är de omsorgfullt bundna och har skjutits i huvudet från nära håll. Herb...

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I ett nedslitet tegelhus i New York, med en brokig samling hyresgäster, bor den lättsinniga och förtrollande Holly Golightly, 19-årig överlevnadskonstnär. Genom grannen, den unge Författaren, får vi följa hennes halsbrytande liv ett hektiskt år un...

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Joel Knox är 13 när hans mamma dör och han flyttar in hos släktingar i New Orleans. Ett oväntat brev anländer - från Joes far, som övergav honom när han var nyfödd. Brevet innehåller en inbjudan: han ska få bo med sin pappa på en ståtlig herrgård ...

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The chilling true crime 'non-fiction novel' that made Truman Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative published in Penguin Modern...

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A beautifully designed edition of Truman Capote's dazzling New York novel Breakfast at Tiffany's, which inspired the classic 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn 'What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and g...

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I ett nedslitet tegelhus i New York, med en brokig samling hyresgäster, bor den lättsinniga och förtrollande Holly Golightly, 19-årig överlevnadskonstnär. Genom grannen, den unge Författaren, får vi följa hennes halsbrytande liv ett hektiskt år un...

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Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Holly Golightly is a glittering socialite mover and shaker:...

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Considered by many to be the first work of the true crime genre, this ground-breaking book reconstructs the murder of the Clutter family from information provided by newspaper articles and interviews. 'Dick became convinced that Perry was tha...

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On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four membe rs of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotg un held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive fo r the crime, and there were almost...

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1959 mördas den förmögne farmaren Herb Clutter och hans familj på Clutters gård i Kansas. Den 30 december arresteras de nyligen frigivna straffångarna Dick Hickock och Perry Smith för mordet. Drygt fem år senare hängs de. Dessa data markerar riktp...

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Holly Golightly is generally up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She hasn't got a past. She doesn't want to belong to anything or anyone, not even to her one-eyed rag-bag pirate of a cat. One day Holly might find somewhere she bel...

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Including a previously-unpublished story 'The Bargain', Truman Capote's The Complete Stories is the first ever complete collection stories from one of the masters of American literature, and the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's...

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Grady - beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant - is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced to. A girl to whom people sense something is going to happen ... But her privile...

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P.B. Jones is the amoral, bisexual protagonist of this unfinished novel. He discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. He discovers along the way that prayers that are answered cause more pain than those t...

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At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a nonfiction novel based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer.Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the ob...

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Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote, the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, are a captivating tribute to the Christmas season 'We set about choosing a tree. "It should be," muses my friend, "twice as tall...

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Joel Knox är 13 när hans mamma dör och han flyttar in hos släktingar i New Orleans. Ett oväntat brev anländer - från Joes far, som övergav honom när han var nyfödd. Brevet innehåller en inbjudan: han ska få bo med sin pappa på en ståtlig herrgård ...

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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting materia...

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When Joel Knox's mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the Deep South to live with a father he has never seen. But once he gets there, everyone is curiously evasive when Joel asks to see his father. Truman Capote's first nov...

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The acclaimed biographer of Truman Capote brings together for the first time Capote's private letters, written to such correspondents as David O. Selznick, Edith Sitwell, Cecil Beaton, and Christopher Isherwood.

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»Wann war es, dass ich zum ersten Mal von der Grasharfe hörte? Lange vor jenem Herbst, als wir im Paternosterbaum lebten, also in einem früheren Herbst, und es war natürlich Dolly, die mir davon erzählte.« Der elfjährige Collin kommt nach dem Tod ...

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Vor ihr liegt ein Sommer, in dem sie einen ganzen Kontinent zwischen sich und ihrer Familie weiß: Während ihre Eltern nach Europa segeln, bleibt die 17-jährige Grady allein zurück in einem schwülen New York ohne Aircondition, dafür in einem voller...

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Wer den "vollkommensten Stilisten seiner Generation" (Norman Mailer) kennenlernen möchte, kommt an seinen Erzählungen nicht vorbei. In diesen schildert Capote die verschiedensten Wege, lieben zu lernen; beschreibt Verirrte und Verlassene...

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Nie war Truman Capote so nah am Leben, an den Menschen und ihren Geheimnissen Truman Capotes journalistisches Werk besitzt die erzählerische Kraft seiner Prosa. Es vereint alles, was den Schriftsteller Capote ausmacht: Melancholie, Beobachtungsgab...

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Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding thi...

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'The only four things that interested me were: reading books, going to the movies, tap-dancing and drawing pictures. Then one day I started writing . . .' Truman Capote began writing at the age of eight, and never looked back. A Capote R...

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Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote, the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's,are a captivating tribute to the Christmas season'We set about choosing a tree. "e;It should be,"e; muses my friend, "e;twice as tall as a boy...

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A major literary event: a collection of never-before-published short stories from one of America's most beloved writersIn a small Southern town, a teenage girl anxiously waits for her date to arrive. A woman fights to save the life of a child who ...

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'Breathtaking ... The stories are special. They stand in their own right as lovely vignettes of the lives of the lonely, broken and troubled' Andrew Johnson, Independent Written when Truman Capote was in his teens and twenties, these rec...

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Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, as though he dwelt in spheres of enlightenment where they, to his regret, did not. This mesmerizing profile of an insecure, vulnerable young Marlon ...

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