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Children on Their Birthdays (Penguin Mini Modern Classics) [Paperback]

Truman Capote (Author)
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Publication Date: 15 Feb 2011 | Series: Penguin Mini Modern Classics

'...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.

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  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics (15 Feb 2011)
  • Language: Unknown
  • ISBN-10: 014119586X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141195865
  • Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 0.7 x 16.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 141,382 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fertile characters cast against the unyielding fervour of the Deep South 20 Feb 2013
By M. J. Easton
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Cast with a fertile entourage of bucolic characters, Capote masterfully crafts a fragile series of stories that are cast against the inevitable and unyielding fervour of the Deep South. At once sad as they are beautiful, dusty as they are fresh, these are tales that tap into the rich seams that lie in even the smallest enclaves of the human spirit.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Quintessential Capote Short Story Gets Its Due in a Volume of Its Own 29 Oct 2011
By Neil Dewitte - Published on Amazon.com
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"Children on Their Birthdays" is an excellent 1940s short story written by Truman Capote which has been published many times over in various anthologies. Penguin has made the choice to finally make it the feature story in a very slim volume of its own. The book also contains two other popular Capote short stories - "A Christmas Memory" and "A Tree of Night." The main story is 32 pages, and the other two round out the 74 page book. The three stories provide a nice balance to the book because the final two stories are nostalgic and gothic, respectively, and each provides a nice contrast to the titular story.

The main story - "Children on Their Birthdays" is set in the American South and features a protagonist named Miss Lily Jane Bobbit, who arrives on a bus one afternoon and sets a sleepy southern town a-flutter with all her precocious ways and odd notions (for a preteen). The title character is a showcase character for Capote whose characteristics appear later in Holly Golightly, the protagonist for Breakfast at Tiffany's, Capote's most famous novella. Miss Lilly Jane Bobbit embodies youthful innocence mixed with adult wisdom with her devil-may-care ways. The town itself is very southern and is a prominent part of the story with its conservative atmosphere. The narrative involves young boys vying for Miss Bobbit's attentions and the mothers of the neighborhood being appalled at everything going on. The dialogue and various descriptions are all delightful to take in while reading.

As a short-story, this is a great read, definitely 5 stars out of 5. You will know this without a doubt after reading the first page. As for the book, I would rate it 4 stars out of 5. It is great to have by your bed stand for a quick read, or perhaps an inexpensive volume if you are a teacher assigning students short-stories to read (without breaking a textbook budget). There is no introduction of any kind, literary or not, but there are a few blank pages at the end of the book one could take notes on. This book might also be good for travel for those without an e-reader because it is so small - no bigger than a post card and less than 1/2 inch thick.
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