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Truman Capote (Paperback)
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Short Description for Truman CapoteIn the tradition of his smash bestseller "Edie", Plimpton brings the endlessly intriguing Truman Capote to life via a dizzying cast of oral biographers, including Lauren Bacall, Katherine Graham, Gore Vidal, and William F. Buckley, Jr. Photos.
Full description- Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
- Published: 01 December 1998
- Format: Paperback 498 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Biography: Literary | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
- ISBN 13: 9780385491730 ISBN 10: 0385491735
- Sales rank: 354,005
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Full description for Truman Capote
Using oral biography, a technique that perfectly matches the style of his subject, George Plimpton blends the voices of Capote's lovers, haters, acquaintances, and colleagues into a highly readable narrative. Here we are present for the entire span of Capote's life: his Southern childhood and his early days in New York; his first literary success with the publication of "Other Voices, Other Rooms"; his highly active love life; the groundbreaking excitement of "In Cold Blood," the first "nonfiction novel"; his years as a jet-setter; and his final days of flagging inspiration, alcoholism, and isolation. All his famous friends and enemies are here: Katherine Graham, Lauren Bacall, Gore Vidal, Joan Didion, William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, Lee Radziwill, John Huston, John Knowles, William F. Buckley, Jr., and dozens of others.
