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Breakfast at Tiffany's Hardcover – November 3, 2022
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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
- Print length144 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication dateNovember 3, 2022
- Dimensions4.57 x 0.59 x 6.61 inches
- ISBN-100241597269
- ISBN-13978-0241597262
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- Publisher : Penguin Classics (November 3, 2022)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 144 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0241597269
- ISBN-13 : 978-0241597262
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 4.57 x 0.59 x 6.61 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #140,294 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the author
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. Following his spell with the New Yorker, Capote spent two years on a Louisiana farm where he wrote Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He lived, at one time or another, in Greece, Italy, Africa and the West Indies, and travelled in Russia and the Orient. 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. Truman Capote died in August 1984.
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This book throws deep questions to me about freedom. Holly Golightly's cat had no name. It was only called "cat". To have a name means to be identified; defined and stipulated as one concrete existence. It means to lose one's freedom in a sense. Holly avoided being restricted by something. So she printed on her card: Miss Holiday Golightly, Traveling. I could discovered a part of a song from the musical Oklahoma! which Holly sang on the fire escape.
Don't wanna sleep,
Don't wanna die,
Just wanna go a-travelin'
Through the pastures of the sky
Holly brings me an enigmatic expression: reds. Judging from the conversation with Fred at her home party, the reds mean the horrible mental status different from the blues. She says "No, the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going happen, only you don't know what it is. You've had that feeling?" Of course I don't know the expression "reds". I have never had the opportunity to feel the "reds". And this is why I have felt so extremely interested in this novel and its movie.
As for the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, I admire the work of its production staff. They portray the important scenes and phrases of this original novel accurately and honestly. I heard that turmoil occurred after Audrey Hepburn was appointed to the lead role Holly instead of Marilyn Monroe.
Though the scenario was rewritten in a short time, I recall the circumstances of the birth of the Magic Flute by Mozart, the movie conserves author's idea and wears sophisticated atmosphere. The song Moon River is just in the movie and a song from the "Oklahoma!" is more befitting to this novel.
My family loves this movie and my mother loved the Holly's hair style at the Forty-second Street public library and she delighted in adopting the same hair style for herself which she wore for her children.
I praise the genius of Truman Capote, I admire the work of its movie production staff and I express my thanks to Ms. Betsy Lewis of BOOK RESCUE LLC who searched this one for me running frantically to and fro between her book barns and gave me the opportunity to read this original novel.
Victor Truemann, Japanese
The short stories to follow are so beautiful.
Holly Golightly is a complex and compelling character, revealed to the reader through the eyes of a young writer who meets her when he moves into the building where she lives, his first tiny New York apartment, a brownstone in the East Seventies. She is mysterious, intoxicating, seductive, whimsical and almost always in the company of older, well to do men. When I picture Holly, she is always wearing a black sleeveless cocktail dress and pearls, with big dark sunglasses. She is larger than life. She tells many stories but shares little of the truth. She is worldly wise and incredibly naive. She is like no one you will ever meet and she is someone you will never forget.
Capote's prose is spare yet incredibly descriptive. To read "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is to read a master class on writing. I certainly cannot do this book justice in my simple review but I know the words he wrote have conveyed an image that I won't soon forget. Holly Golightly will haunt the reader the way she does the men who encounter her. I can't wait for our book club discussion.
I have not yet read the other stories in this book but I was in a hurry to review "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
Top reviews from other countries
Author:Truman Capote
(Suddenly becomes my favourite author.I have read all his stories and also the sensational non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.Seems I will soon devour rest of his writings...) His story 'One Christmas Memory'...almost a non-fiction again...has carved a permanent place in my heart...One of the most poignant I have ever read...And, please, don't take it lightly...I have been reading Hemingway side by side.
I wish Capote would have lived longer and would have written more..And more people knew about his writings.
A 98 pages one breath long story .The central character of this book is Holly Golightly..a girl who hates the thought of any living being kept in cages..who advises against falling in love with wild beings...hawks..crows..or women...
Who doesn't think that a person can ever belong to any other person and most importantly, she has her concept of what a place with complete bliss would be like...it would be like Breakfast at Tiffany's....where the confidence,elegance and comfort arising out of affluence permeates the ambience...and nothing can go wrong at such places. Everything in a calm control.
All women have a Holly in them..and all have their own imagination of their personal breakfasts at Tiffany's.
(About the movie:May be later....someday we will talk about that....
There is a wonderful movie with the same name based on this book. A beautiful movie with Audrey Hepburn as Holly....
Well, I don't ever get into the debate of the book or the movie.They are two separate media..asking for different sets of methods and treatments...in different types of hands......)
This is not a review.This is an attempt to capture my own awe in words...and to share something that is much more than a joy of reading!
Reviewing Truman Capote is almost blasphemous.One has to just read him and enter the solitude where he takes us..a world where he has observed everything..
The rain..the mist..the whiff...and even the skidding of wet leaves..
Capote was king of observations.The reader inside us starts looking at all those things and sentiments which one might not have cared to register till now. Capote just conquers your heart and keeps it in his hands to take us to a world you know you have not seen, but you feel that you have travelled there again...you have memories calling....
Capote is wistful always..in all his writings..always longing for some feeling of the past..missing something which he doesn't seem to put in a concrete shape...a loss which he cannot put his finger on..doesn't know whether it existed.
And when you read Capote, you see everything he has seen and noted.
Reviewed in India on April 3, 2021
Author:Truman Capote
(Suddenly becomes my favourite author.I have read all his stories and also the sensational non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.Seems I will soon devour rest of his writings...) His story 'One Christmas Memory'...almost a non-fiction again...has carved a permanent place in my heart...One of the most poignant I have ever read...And, please, don't take it lightly...I have been reading Hemingway side by side.
I wish Capote would have lived longer and would have written more..And more people knew about his writings.
A 98 pages one breath long story .The central character of this book is Holly Golightly..a girl who hates the thought of any living being kept in cages..who advises against falling in love with wild beings...hawks..crows..or women...
Who doesn't think that a person can ever belong to any other person and most importantly, she has her concept of what a place with complete bliss would be like...it would be like Breakfast at Tiffany's....where the confidence,elegance and comfort arising out of affluence permeates the ambience...and nothing can go wrong at such places. Everything in a calm control.
All women have a Holly in them..and all have their own imagination of their personal breakfasts at Tiffany's.
(About the movie:May be later....someday we will talk about that....
There is a wonderful movie with the same name based on this book. A beautiful movie with Audrey Hepburn as Holly....
Well, I don't ever get into the debate of the book or the movie.They are two separate media..asking for different sets of methods and treatments...in different types of hands......)
This is not a review.This is an attempt to capture my own awe in words...and to share something that is much more than a joy of reading!
Reviewing Truman Capote is almost blasphemous.One has to just read him and enter the solitude where he takes us..a world where he has observed everything..
The rain..the mist..the whiff...and even the skidding of wet leaves..
Capote was king of observations.The reader inside us starts looking at all those things and sentiments which one might not have cared to register till now. Capote just conquers your heart and keeps it in his hands to take us to a world you know you have not seen, but you feel that you have travelled there again...you have memories calling....
Capote is wistful always..in all his writings..always longing for some feeling of the past..missing something which he doesn't seem to put in a concrete shape...a loss which he cannot put his finger on..doesn't know whether it existed.
And when you read Capote, you see everything he has seen and noted.