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Breakfast at Tiffany's

Truman Capote

  • 160 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 1958
  • 113 editions
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1 About this book

Published with three short stories this novella cemented Capote’s position at the forefront of American literature. It is the story of a friendship between New York neighbours, good time girl Holly Golightly and the unnamed male narrator.

Good for readers who want: a coming-of-age story, short stories, friendship, and a short read.

  • Friendship
  • Coming of age
  • Short stories
  • Manners and customs
  • Gay men
  • Young women
  • Relations with women
  • Boys

2 About Truman Capote

1924–1984

Truman Garcia Capote (ka-POH-teh; born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe.

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