- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (29 July 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140187030
- ISBN-13: 978-0140187038
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 401,551 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"An incomparable stylist and entertainer...clean and cool...Ýwith a superb, near-perfect pitch with dialogue." --"The New York Times Book Review"
"Everything is displayed in this book: insights and recollections of the famous and the obscure; old jokes and fresh wit...These stories and vingettes will endure." --"New Republic"
"Everything is displayed in this book: insights and recollections of the famous and the obscure; old jokes and fresh wit...These stories and vingettes will endure." --"New Republic"
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This collection of 14 short stories includes "Handcarved Coffins" which, like the novel "In Cold Blood", is based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer. Of the 14 stories, seven are potraits of characters such as Marilyn Monroe and a dope-smoking, New York cleaning lady.
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I came to this book after reading Capote's infamous and brilliant 'true crime' novel 'In Cold Blood', and I was left with much less respect for him. There are opinions that Truman Capote wasted himself as a writer, and this book alone seems to display that. Clearly he is talented and isolated moments of these stories prove that, but after a horribly self-masturbatory introduction from Capote himself, it's just a series of wasted attempts that feel like drafts rather than finished stories. Buy it if you must but not unless you have read 'In Cold Blood', a very fine novel, first.
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