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Frukost på Tiffany's

AvTruman Capote

Pocket, Svenska, 2017

(6)

99 kr

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 under andra världskriget. Truman Capote, som i den unge Författaren tecknar ett ömsint och lite ironiskt självporträtt, kom att bli en av USA:s mest lästa moderna författare. Hans bitterljuva berättelse om Holly, som när ångesten väller över henne drömmer om att äta frukost på Tiffany's, New Yorks elegantaste juvelerarbutik, har blivit en klassiker. Boken innehåller också tre noveller av Truman Capote: Ett hus av blommor, En diamantgitarr och Ett julminne - alla tre lysande exempel på Capotes stilkonst.

Med kallt blod : en sann redogörelse för ett fyrdubbelt mord och dess följder

AvTruman Capote

Storpocket, Svenska, 2023

(2)

149 kr

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 Clutter var en man utan fiender, och känd för att aldrig ha kontanter, varken på sig eller hemma. Motivet till mordet är oförklarligt. Den 30 december arresteras i Las Vegas de nyligen frigivna straffångarna Dick Hickock och Perry Smith för mordet på familjen Clutter. Drygt fem år senare, den 14 april 1965, hängs de i Kansas statsfängelse. Dessa data markerar de yttre riktpunkterna i ett massmord som framstår som lika oundvikligt som meningslöst. "Med kallt blod" växer från en skildring av individuella öden till en bild av skoningslösa sociala mekanismer i det amerikanska samhället, igår likväl som idag.

"Oerhört skickligt skriven, med en stilistisk återhållsamhet som man måste beundra." Svenska Dagbladet 1966

"Ett mästerverk - en fascinerande roman." Life

"... novellens exakthet och den realistiska romanens svärta ... ingen hade gjort det bättre. Vingbredden mäktig, ödesdramat drabbande." Dagens Nyheter 2006

Andra röster, andra rum

AvTruman Capote

Inbunden, Svenska, 2020

(2)

141 kr

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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 i Alabama.

När Joel anländer - till Skully's Landing, djupt i den lantliga Södern - visar sig stället spöklikt nedgånget. Och fadern syns inte till. Han möter i stället sin styvmor Amy och hennes kusin Randolph, samt tjänarna Zoo och Jesus. Han lär också känna Idabel, en argsint grannflicka (eller är hon pojke). När omständigheterna kring hans far uppdagas har Joel hunnit bli en annan. Inget kommer någonsin att bli som förut. Truman Capotes debutroman Andra röster, andra rum [Other Voices, Other Rooms] blev en omedelbar klassiker när den utkom 1948. I dag räknas den till milstolparna i den amerikanska 1900-talslitteraturen. I svensk översättning av Per-Erik Wahlund och med ett nyskrivet förord av författaren och litteraturkritikern Sebastian Lönnlöv.

TRUMAN CAPOTE [1924-1984] var en amerikansk författare, journalist, dramatiker, manusförfattare och skådespelare. De mest kända verken är kortromanen Frukost på Tiffany's [1958], dokumentärromanen Med kallt blod [1965] och debutromanen Andra röster, andra rum [1948], ett mästerverk i Southern Gothic-genren men till stor del självbiografisk.

»En av litteraturhistoriens starkaste debuter.« | Carl-Johan Malmberg, Svenska Dagbladet

»Truman Capote är min generations perfekte författare.« | Norman Mailer

Del 4 - Penguin Essentials

Breakfast at Tiffany's

AvTruman Capote

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

(9)

139 kr

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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 go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits...' Meet Holly Golightly - a free spirited, lop-sided romantic girl about town. With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly is a style sensation wherever she goes. Her apartment rocks to Martini-soaked parties and she plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate dream - to find a real life place like Tiffany's that makes her feel at home.Full of sharp wit and exuberant, larger-than-life characters which vividly capture the restless, madcap era of 1940s New York, Breakfast at Tiffany's will make you fall in love, perhaps for the first time, with a book.'A master writer ... makes the heart sing and the narrative fly' The New York Times'The most romantic story ever written' Alex James, Guardian'One of the century's greatest storytellers' Independent on Sunday

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In Cold Blood

A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences

AvTruman Capote

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

(2)

115 kr

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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 that rarity, "a natural killer" - absolutely sane, but conscienceless, and capable of dealing, with or without motive, the coldest-blooded deathblows'On 15 November 1959, the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, a wealthy farmer, his wife and their two young children were found brutally murdered. Blood all over the walls, the telephone lines cut, and only a few dollars stolen. Heading up the investigation is Agent Al Dewey, but all he has are two footprints, four bodies, and a whole lot of questions. Truman Capote's detailed reconstruction of the events and consequences of that fateful night, In Cold Blood is a chilling, gripping mix of journalistic skill and imaginative power. 'The American dream turning into the American nightmare. A remarkable book' Spectator'One of the most stupendous books of the decade' Sunday Express

Other Voices, Other Rooms

AvTruman Capote

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

(2)

135 kr

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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 novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a brilliant, searching study of homosexuality set in a shimmering landscape of heat, mystery and decadence.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

AvTruman Capote

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

(2)

129 kr

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Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn's sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, Breakfast at Tiffany's is Truman Capote's timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly, published in Penguin Modern Classics.It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, for Holly Golightly: glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while - down. Pursued by to Salvatore 'Sally' Tomato, the Mafia sugar-daddy doing life in Sing Sing and 'Rusty' Trawler, the blue-chinned, cuff-shooting millionaire man about women about town, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock deparment', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction.This edition also contains three stories: 'House of Flowers', 'A Diamond Guitar' and 'A Christmas Memory'.Truman Capote (1924-84) was born in New Orleans. He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for The New Yorker, which provided his first - and last - regular job. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction - short stories, novels and novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays and films; his other works include In Cold Blood (1965), Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of which are published in Penguin Modern Classics.If you enjoyed Breakfast at Tiffany's, you might like Capote's In Cold Blood, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'One of the twentieth century's most gorgeously romantic fictions'Daily Telegraph'The most perfect writer of my generation ... I would not have changed two words of Breakfast at Tiffany's'Norman Mailer

In Cold Blood

AvTruman Capote

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

322 kr

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Breakfast at Tiffany's

AvTruman Capote

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

169 kr

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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: generally upwards, sometimes sideways and, every now and then, down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a delight, a drifter, a tease. In short, an icon. Truman Capote's most famous work, Breakfast at Tiffany's is the ultimate ode to dreamers.'The most perfect writer of my generation ... I would not have changed two words of Breakfast at Tiffany's' Norman Mailer

In Cold Blood

AvTruman Capote

E-bok

Engelska, 2001

120 kr

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National Bestseller 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 both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.

In Cold Blood

AvTruman Capote

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

(1)

222 kr

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Breakfast at Tiffany's

AvTruman Capote

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

159 kr

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Answered Prayers

AvTruman Capote

Häftad, Engelska

182 kr

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In Cold Blood

A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences

AvTruman Capote

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

(3)

129 kr

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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 Classics.Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human. Truman Capote (1924-84) was born in New Orleans. He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for The New Yorker, which provided his first - and last - regular job. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction - short stories, novels and novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays and films; his other works include In Cold Blood (1965), Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of which are published in Penguin Modern Classics.If you enjoyed In Cold Blood, you might like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs' And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'It is the American dream turning into the American nightmare ... By juxtaposing and dovetailing the lives and values of the Clutters and those of the killers, Capote produces a stark image of the deep doubleness of American life ... a remarkable book'Spectator

In Cold Blood

A True Account of a Multiple Murder And Its Consequences

AvTruman Capote

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

137 kr

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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 this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible, yet entirely and frighteningly human. The book that made Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative.

Music for Chameleons

New Writing

AvTruman Capote

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

148 kr

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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 obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also in this volume are six short stories and seven ‘conversational portraits’ including a touching one of Marilyn Monroe, the ‘beautiful child’ and a hilarious one of a dope-smoking cleaning lady doing her rounds in New York.

Capote Reader

AvTruman Capote

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

185 kr

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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 Reader contains much of the author's published work: his brilliant and prolific oeuvre of fiction, travel sketches, portraits, reportage and essays. It includes all twelve of his celebrated short stories, together with The Grass Harp and Breakfast at Tiffany's. There are vivid sketches of places from Tangiers to Brooklyn, and fascinating insights into the lives of his contemporaries, from Jane Bowles and Cecil Beaton to Marilyn Monroe and Tennessee Williams. Generous space is devoted to reportage including 'The Muses Are Heard', on his trip to Communist Europe in the 1950s with the cast of Porgy and Bess. In all, A Capote Reader demonstrates the chameleon talents of one of America's most versatile and gifted writers.

Answered Prayers

The Unfinished Novel

AvTruman Capote

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

148 kr

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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 that remain ignored.

Complete Stories

AvTruman Capote

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

148 kr

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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. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Reynolds Price.Passionate, perceptive and eloquent, the short stories of Truman Capote are amon the greatest works of twentieth-century American fiction. This new collection gathers them all together for the first time: from early, eerie Southern Gothic tales such as 'Miriam' and 'The Headless Hawk', to the brilliantly evocative 'Children On Their Birth-days' and the tenderly autobiographical 'A Christmas Memory' - an affectionate portrayal of Capote's own Alabama upbringing. Whether describing the Deep South of his childhood, or considering city life with the penetrating gaze of an outsider - as in 'Among the Paths to Eden' and the hitherto unpublished 'The Bargain' - these stories rank among Capote's finest work: acutely observed tales from a unique and brilliant mind.Truman Capote (1924-84) was born in New Orleans. He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for The New Yorker, which provided his first - and last - regular job. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction - short stories, novels and novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays and films; his other works include In Cold Blood (1965), Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of which are published in Penguin Modern Classics.If you enjoyed The Complete Stories, you might like Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'One of the century's greatest storytellers'Independent on Sunday

Summer Crossing

AvTruman Capote

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

135 kr

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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 privileged society life of parties, debutantes and dresses leaves her wanting more. And excitement comes in the form of the highly unsuitable Clyde, a Brooklyn-born, Jewish parking attendant. When Grady's parents leave her alone for the first time in their New York penthouse one summer, their secret affair intensifies. As a heat wave envelops the city, Grady gets in deeper and deeper and cares less about the consequences. Soon, though, she will be forced to make decisions - choices that will forever affect her future once the long, sultry summer comes to an end.

Christmas Memory

AvTruman Capote

E-bok

Engelska, 2020

100 kr

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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 as a boy. So a boy can't steal the star."'Selected from across Truman Capote's writing life, these Christmas stories range from nostalgic, semi-autobiographical portraits of childhood to more unsettling tales of darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South of Capote's youth, a young boy, Buddy, and his beloved maiden 'aunt' Sook forage for pecans and whiskey to bake into fruitcakes, make kites - too broke to buy gifts - and rise before dawn to prepare feasts for a ragged assembly of guests; while in other stories, a lonely woman has a troubling encounter in wintry New York and an unlikely festive miracle, of sorts, occurs at a local drugstore.Brimming with feeling, these sparkling tales convey both the wonder and the chill of Christmas time.

Early Stories of Truman Capote

AvTruman Capote

E-bok

Engelska, 2015

100 kr

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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 has her lover's eyes. Best friends on the Upper East Side discuss the theoretical murder of husbands. In these never-before-published stories, set in the rural South and the cosmopolitan New York of the 1940s, written by Truman Capote in his teens and twenties, the American master is already recognizable. This splendid collection offers readers the opportunity to see the confident first steps of one of the twentieth century's most acclaimed writers.

Early Stories of Truman Capote

AvTruman Capote

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

148 kr

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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, IndependentWritten when Truman Capote was in his teens and twenties, these recently-discovered short stories give a rare insight into an American icon. Tales of disappointed lovers, ageing spinsters, hoboes and murderous housewives, of yearning, poverty, despair, compassion, wit and wonder, they show us the boy from Alabama who became one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary voices.'An intriguing glimpse of Capote as a boy: precocious, provocative, spirited and strange, a "pocket Merlin" spinning tall tales' Olivia Laing, New Statesman

Duke in His Domain

AvTruman Capote

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

43 kr

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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 Brando, brooding in a Kyoto hotel during a break from filming, is a peerless piece of journalism.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Christmas Memory

AvTruman Capote

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

135 kr

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Penguin Readers Level 4: Breakfast at Tiffany's (ELT Graded Reader)

Abridged Edition

AvTruman Capote

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

99 kr

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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 material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.Breakfast at Tiffany's, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.Visit the Penguin Readers websiteExclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.An unnamed writer remembers living in New York City in the United States of America during World War II. He becomes friends with one of his neighbors, the beautiful yet strange, Holly Golightly.

Penguin Readers Level 4: Breakfast at Tiffany's (ELT Graded Reader)

Abridged Edition

AvTruman Capote

E-bok

Engelska, 2022

89 kr

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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series. Please note that the eBook edition does NOT include access to the audio edition and digital book. Written for learners of English as a foreign language, each title includes carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers'' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.Breakfast at Tiffany''s, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.Visit the Penguin Readers websiteRegister to access online resources including tests, worksheets and answer keys. Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock a digital book and audio edition (not available with the eBook).An unnamed writer remembers living in New York City in the United States of America during World War II. He becomes friends with one of his neighbors, the beautiful yet strange, Holly Golightly.

In Cold Blood

A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences

AvTruman Capote

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

215 kr

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Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human.The book that made Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative.

Christmas Memory

AvTruman Capote

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

168 kr

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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.Selected from across Capote's writing life, they range from nostalgic portraits of childhood to more unsettling works that reveal the darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South of Capote's youth, a young boy, Buddy, and his beloved maiden 'aunt' Sook forage for pecans and whiskey to bake into fruitcakes, make kites – too broke to buy gifts – and rise before dawn to prepare feasts for a ragged assembly of guests; it is Sook who teaches Buddy the true meaning of good will. In other stories, an unlikely festive miracle, of sorts, occurs at a local drugstore; a lonely woman has a troubling encounter in wintry New York. Brimming with feeling, these sparkling tales convey both the wonder and the chill of Christmas time.

Other Voices, Other Rooms

AvTruman Capote

E-bok

Engelska, 2007

194 kr

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Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South.At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully’s Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face—and heart—of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.