Truman Capote, enfant terrible /
From the Publisher: This is a critical biography of Truman Capote's career from his early beginnings in rural Alabama to his death in Beverly Hills. Coverage includes the writing and staging of The Grass Harp, and its later adaptation as a Hollywood film, and the story behind "House of Flo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Continuum,
2008
New York : 2008 |
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| Summary: | From the Publisher: This is a critical biography of Truman Capote's career from his early beginnings in rural Alabama to his death in Beverly Hills. Coverage includes the writing and staging of The Grass Harp, and its later adaptation as a Hollywood film, and the story behind "House of Flowers," from a travel sketch to a Broadway musical. But the thrust of the book, and its greatest strength, is its depiction of Capote as a virtuoso, able to command a large popular audience and also to impress connoisseurs of literature. As Robert Emmet Long shows, Capote abounded in the seeming contradictions and multiple personalities within himself that ultimately led to his destruction. His career incorporated both a beguiling comic sense and a dark sense of the failure of love and aspiration This book is a short and pungent New Yorker-style profile of one of the great literary talents and some would say underachievers of American literature. Robert Long combines biographical insights with literary criticism in a chapter-by-chapter development. It covers the early stories and early novels (Other Voices, Other Rooms), later work (Breakfast at Tiffany's), screenplays (the cult film Beat the Devil), the nonfiction (In Cold Blood), the unfinished novel (Answered Prayers). A number of classic Southern gothic elements are deftly explored as they relate to Capote's later work, his successes and failures "This is a critical biography of Truman Capote's career from his early beginnings in rural Alabama to his death in Beverly Hills. Coverage includes the writing and staging of The Grass Harp, and its later adaptation as a Hollywood film, and the story behind "House of Flowers," from a travel sketch to a Broadway musical. But the thrust of the book, and its greatest strength, is its depiction of Capote as a virtuoso, able to command a large popular audience and also to impress connoisseurs of literature. As Robert Emmet Long shows, Capote abounded in the seeming contradictions and multiple personalities within himself that ultimately led to his destruction. His career incorporated both a beguiling comic sense and a dark sense of the failure of love and aspiration."--BOOK JACKET |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | x, 130 p. ; 23 cm x, 130 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-123) and index |
| ISBN: | 0826427634 (alk. paper) 0826427634 9780826427632 (alk. paper) 9780826427632 |