Breakfast at Tiffany's & Other Voices, Other Rooms

Two Novels

Truman Capote

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Modern Library Inc
15 April 2013

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

For the first time, Truman Capote's classic Breakfast at Tiffany's will be accompanied by his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, in this new hardcover package from the Modern Library.

From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote-also available are In Cold Blood, Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories

Together in one volume, here are a pair of literary touchstones from Truman Capote's extraordinary early career- the transcendently popular novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Voices, Other Rooms, the debut novel he published as a twenty-three-year-old prodigy.

Of all his characters, Capote once said, Holly Golightly was his favorite. The hillbilly-turned-Manhattanite at the center of Breakfast at Tiffany's shares not only the author's philosophy of freedom but also his fears and anxieties. For Holly, the cure is to jump into a taxi and head for Tiffany's; nothing bad could happen, she believes, amid ""that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets.""

Other Voices, Other Rooms begins as thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to rural Alabama to live with his estranged father-who is nowhere to be found. Instead, Joel meets his eccentric family and finds a kindred spirit in a defiant little girl. Despite its themes of waylaid hopes and lost innocence, this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel revels in small pleasures and the colorful language of its time and place.

By: Truman Capote
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Combined volume
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 142mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 403g
ISBN: 9780812994360
ISBN 10: 0812994361
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 15 April 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents' divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to international prominence in 1948 with the publication of his debut novel,Other Voices, Other Rooms.Among his celebrated works areBreakfast at Tiffany's, A Tree of Night, The Grass Harp, Summer Crossing, A Christmas Memory,andIn Cold Blood,widely considered one of the greatest books of the twentieth century. Twice awarded the O. Henry Short Story Prize, Capote was also the recipient of a National Institute of Arts and Letters Creative Writing Award and an Edgar Award. He died August 25, 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.