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The Complete Stories

By Truman Capote
Introduction by Reynolds Price

By Truman Capote
Introduction by Reynolds Price

By Truman Capote

By Truman Capote

By Truman Capote
Introduction by Reynolds Price

By Truman Capote
Introduction by Reynolds Price

By Truman Capote
Introduction by Reynolds Price

By Truman Capote
Introduction by Reynolds Price

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Sep 13, 2005 | ISBN 9781400096916

Hardcover $24.00

May 07, 2013 | ISBN 9780812994377

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Sep 21, 2004 | ISBN 9780679643104

Ebook $12.99

May 15, 2012 | ISBN 9780345803061

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    About The Complete Stories

    A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story.
    Ranging from the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and people of Capote’s oeuvre are here, in stories as elegant as they are heartfelt, as haunting as they are compassionate. Reading them reminds us of the miraculous gifts of a beloved American original.

    About The Complete Stories

    From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), In Cold Blood, and Portraits and Observations

    Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as compassionate as they were grotesque. This volume is the first to assemble all of Capote’s short fiction—a collection that indeed confirms his status as one of the masters of this form. From the Gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and people of Capote’s oeuvre are captured in this compendium. The Complete Stories of Truman Capote restores its author to a place not only above mere celebrity but to the highest levels of American letters.

    About The Complete Stories

    Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as grotesque as they were compassionate. Now, on the occasion of what would have been his eightieth birthday, the Modern Library presents the first collection that includes all of Capote’s short fiction–a volume that confirms his status as one of the masters of this form.

    Among the selections are “A Tree of Night,” in which an innocent student, sitting on a train beside a slatternly woman and her deaf-mute companion, enters a seductive nightmare that brings back the deepest fears of childhood . . . “House of Flowers,” the inspiration for a celebrated Broadway musical, which tells of a superstitious prostitute who learns to love in a way no one else can ever understand . . . the holiday perennial “A Christmas Memory,” famously adapted into a superb made-for-TV movie . . . and “The Bargain,” Capote’s melancholy, never-before-published 1950 story about a suburban housewife’s shifting fortunes.

    From the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and people of Capote’s oeuvre are captured in this first-ever compendium. The Collected Stories of Truman Capote should restore its author to a place above mere celebrity, to the highest levels of American letters.

    About The Complete Stories

    A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story.
    Ranging from the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and people of Capote’s oeuvre are here, in stories as elegant as they are heartfelt, as haunting as they are compassionate. Reading them reminds us of the miraculous gifts of a beloved American original.

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    See all books by Truman Capote

    About Truman Capote

    Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to… More about Truman Capote

    About Truman Capote

    Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to… More about Truman Capote

    About Truman Capote

    Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to… More about Truman Capote

    About Truman Capote

    Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to… More about Truman Capote

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 13, 2005 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400096916

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $24.00
    Published by Modern Library
    May 07, 2013 | 352 Pages | 5-3/8 x 8 | ISBN 9780812994377

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $26.00
    Published by Random House
    Sep 21, 2004 | 320 Pages | 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780679643104

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    May 15, 2012 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780345803061
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    Praise

     “An abundance of riches. . . . It is not hard at all to open to any page . . . and be amused, moved, intrigued.” —Newsday

     “To best experience Capote the stylist, one must go back to his short fiction. . . . One experiences as strongly as ever his gift for concrete abstraction and his spectacular observancy.” —The New Yorker

    “It is a stunning experience to reread this fiction . . . and to realize how very golden this boy was. . . . We are in the presence of a tremendous talent, and a fully mature technique as well. Norman Mailer’s judgment that Capote was the most perfect writer of their generation—‘he writes the best sentences word for word, rhythm upon rhythm’—seems true and just.” —The New Criterion

    “Capote does some things perfectly than many writers can’t do at all. . . . He summons the sensory world in its bewildering, inexhaustible richness.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

    Table Of Contents

    Introduction: Usable Answers by Reynolds Price

    The Walls Are Cold (1943)
    A Mink of One’s Own (1944)
    The Shape of Things (1944)
    Jug of Silver (1945)
    Miram (1945)
    My Side of the Matter (1945)
    Preacher’s Legend (1945)
    A Tree of Night (1945)
    The Headless Hawk (1946)
    Shut a Final Door (1947)
    Children on Their Birthdays (1948)
    Master Misery (1949)
    The Bargain (1950)
    A Diamond Guitar (1950)
    House of Flowers (1951)
    A Christmas Memory (1956)
    Among the Paths to Eden (1960)
    The Thanksgiving Visitor (1967)
    Mojave (1975)
    One Christmas (1982)

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