Opis: The Early Stories of Truman Capote - Truman Capote

With a major literary event, this is a collection of never-before-published short stories from one of America's most beloved writers. In 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. Breathtaking in their precocity, craftsmanship, simplicity and the tenderness [Capote] became renowned for ... 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 The work of a precocious teenager ... There is certainly plenty in Capote's Early Stories to make aspiring writers, teenage or otherwise, wonder what they're doing with their lives -- Sam Kitchener Telegraph An intriguing glimpse of Capote as a boy: precocious, provocative, spirited and strange, a "pocket Merlin" spinning tall tales -- Olivia Laing New Statesman Along with cinematic elan [THE EARLY STORIES] convey a strong flavour of reportage, hinting at what was to come -- Hephzibah Anderson Observer

Szczegóły: The Early Stories of Truman Capote - Truman Capote

Tytuł: The Early Stories of Truman Capote
Autor: Truman Capote
Producent: Penguin
ISBN: 9780241202401
Rok produkcji: 2015
Ilość stron: 192
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.29 kg

Recenzje: The Early Stories of Truman Capote - Truman Capote