“Truman Capote is a stylist of the highest class... the hope of modern literature,” wrote Somerset Maugham. And Norman Mailer said: “Truman Capote is the best writer of our generation.”
The works of Truman Capote collected in the book were written in different years and published in different collections, but they are united by one setting - New York, which itself becomes the protagonist of the story. The realistic description of city streets and landscapes, comparable in accuracy to a guidebook, is combined with a ghostly, sometimes implausible and even mystical atmosphere, in which the reality and inner experiences of the characters are so intertwined that the reader has doubts about the reality of the events themselves. All the writer’s heroes, depicted with subtle psychologism, are unsettled and lonely people in search of themselves and their place in life. This volume includes Breakfast at Tiffany's (Capote's most famous work, made famous in 1961 by its film adaptation starring Audrey Hepburn), the lyrical story Voices of the Grass, and the monumental novel In Cold Blood, based on a true crime story. and which gave rise to a new genre of “report novel”, and a complete collection of stories by this outstanding master of American literature of the 20th century.
Author: Truman Capote
Translation: Oleg Alyakrinsky, Vladimir Babkov
Pages: 768 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 217x148x35 mm
Series: Foreign literature. Big books
