Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375702419)

The private letters of Truman Capote, lovingly assembled here for the first time by acclaimed Capote biographer Gerald Clarke, provide an intimate, unvarnished portrait of one of the twentieth century's most colorful and fascinating literary figures.

Capote was an inveterate letter writer. He wrote letters as he spoke: emphatically, spontaneously, and passionately. Spanning more than four decades, his letters are the closest thing we have to a Capote autobiography, showing us the uncannily self-possessed na? who jumped headlong into the post-World War II New York literary scene; the more mature Capote of the 1950s; the Capote of the early 1960s, immersed in the research and writing of In Cold Blood; and Capote later in life, as things seem to be unraveling. With cameos by a veritable who's who of twentieth-century glitterati, Too Brief a Treat shines a spotlight on the life and times of an incomparable American writer.

Author: Truman Capote
ISBN-10: 0375702415
ISBN-13: 9780375702419
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2005
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.39w x 0.93d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/09/2005 pg. 28