Author: Truman Capote
Translator: Hyeon-ju Park
Publisher: Sigongsa
Hardcover | 504 pages | 210*143mm
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About This Book
The common perception of Capote (who died in 1984) is that he had a
brilliant early beginning to a career that eventually fizzled out in
drug use and soured celebrity. His "new nonfiction" book, In Cold Blood
(1966), the true story of a Kansas murder told with great fictional
technique and elan, is generally regarded as his finest achievement. But
now, for the first time, all of Capote's short stories are being
published together, an event that signifies a renewed appreciation of
his overall contribution to literature, for evidence is presented in
this one volume that he should be ranked as a major American short story
writer. By instinct, he produced the amalgam of fact and fiction that
became In Cold Blood; similarly but contrarily, by instinct he wrote
short stories always intent on maintaining the form's integrity as
distinct from the novel. Most of Capote's short story work was
concentrated in the early years of his career, the 1940s, but his
capacity for writing deeply thought-out, deeply felt stories continued
into the 1980s, from the first story in the collection, "The Walls Are
Cold," a short, entertaining piece about a young, flirtatious socialite,
to the last story, "One Christmas," set in the Alabama and New Orleans
of his boyhood, a story conjured from the heart--but free of overripe
sentiment--about learning the differences in how people love. Both a
broadening of theme and deepening in treatment are observable when the
stories in the collection are read in order; all of them are linked by a
shimmering, but never showy, eloquence and sensitive observation of the
personal environments his characters inhabit, both psychological and
physical. --Brad Hooper
- The Walls are Clold
- A Mink of one's own
- The Shape of Things
- Jug of Silver
- Miriam
- My Side of the Matter
- Preacher's Legend
- A Tree of Night
- The Headless Hawk
- Shut a Final Door
- Children of Their Birthdays
- Master Misery
- The Bargain
- A Diamond Guitar
- House of Flowers
- A Christmas Memory
- Among the Paths to Eden
- The Thanksgiving Visitor
- Mojave
- One Christmas
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