Breakfast at Tiffany's | Related Titles

In technique and tone, Breakfast at Tiffany's resembles several of Capote's other retrospective, nostalgic fiction such as A Christmas Memory (1966), The Thanksgiving Visitor (1968), and The Grass Harp (1951; see separate entry), in which a young boy's progress toward adulthood is strongly influenced by an eccentric female character. The same "coming of age" motif and memoir technique recur frequently in Capote's work, from his first novel Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948; see separate entry) through various segments of the posthumously published...

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