Capote, Truman (Vol. 3) - Capote, Truman 1924–1984

Capote, Truman 1924–1984

An American stylist and literary celebrity, Capote refuses to be typed as a Southern novelist. Capote is the author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and the "nonfiction novel" In Cold Blood. He is an authority on American prisons. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)

Rereading all of Truman Capote's writing, we are perhaps surprised by the range of his volatile gift, thinking of him still, as most readers do, as the strangely precocious youth from New Orleans, author of Other Voices, Other Rooms. His is, in fact, a various prose, equally at ease—to name the extremes—in situations of dark and frightful nightmare, and of extravagant comedy. Perhaps the single constant in his prose is style, and the emphasis that he himself places upon the importance of style. By style one means, of course, not only the language as such but the observed physical detail and the varieties of the precisely...

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