Breakfast at tiffanys is a novella by truman capote published in 1958. Immortalised by audrey hepburns sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, breakfast at tiffanys is truman capotes timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon holly golightly, published in penguin modern classics. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading breakfast at tiffanys vintage international. Including a previouslyunpublished story the bargain, truman capotes the complete stories is the first ever complete collection stories from one of the masters of american literature, and the author of breakfast at tiffanys. When truman capote debuted on the new york literary scene in 1948, no one had seen anything quite like him. Capote soon became famous for his intensely readable and nuanced short stories, novels, and novellas, but he was equally famous as a personality, gadfly, and bon vivant not to mention as a crime writer. Hepburn is beautifully repackaged as part of the penguin essentials range. Truman capote was an american writer whose nonfiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella breakfast at tiffany s 1958 and in cold blood 1965, which he labeled a nonfiction novel. Descrizione libro penguin books ltd, united kingdom, 2000.
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