Cart
Free Shipping in Australia
Proud to be B-Corp

Children on Their Birthdays Truman Capote

Children on Their Birthdays By Truman Capote

Children on Their Birthdays by Truman Capote


$208,99
Condition - Like New
Only 1 left

Summary

Perceptive, sensitive and eloquent, this book is filled with brooding atmosphere and gorgeous description that tell of genteel eccentrics, evocative childhood memories and a malevolent nocturnal meeting.

Children on Their Birthdays Summary

Children on Their Birthdays by Truman Capote

'...We were sitting on the porch, tutti-frutti melting on our plates, when suddenly, just as we were wishing that something would happen, something did; for out of the red road dust appeared Miss Bobbit.' Truman Capote's bewitching short stories, many of which were set in the Deep South of his youth, are among his finest works. Perceptive, sensitive and eloquent, filled with brooding atmosphere and gorgeous description, these three stories tell of genteel eccentrics, evocative childhood memories and a malevolent nocturnal meeting. This book includes Children on Their Birthdays, A Christmas Memory and A Tree of Night.

About Truman Capote

Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925 and was raised in various parts of the South, his family spending winters in New Orleans and summers in Alabama and New Georgia. By the age of fourteen he had already started writing short stories, some of which were published. He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for the New Yorker which provided his first - and last - regular job. He is the author of many highly praised books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories (1949), The Grass Harp (1951), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), In Cold Blood (1965), which immediately became the centre of a storm of controversy on its publication, Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of which are published by Penguin. He died in Los Angeles in 1984.

Additional information

GOR011856231
9780141195865
014119586X
Children on Their Birthdays by Truman Capote
Used - Like New
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20110215
96
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

Customer Reviews - Children on Their Birthdays