Truman Capote: A Christmas Memory
A Christmas Memory
Buch
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 10/2022
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, B-format paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780241474426
- Bestellnummer: 10432205
- Umfang: 94 Seiten
- Gewicht: 200 g
- Maße: 198 x 129 mm
- Stärke: 15 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 27.10.2022
- Serie: Penguin Modern Classics
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote, the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's,are a captivating tribute to the Christmas season
'We set about choosing a tree. "It should be," muses my friend, "twice as tall as a boy. So a boy can't steal the star."'
Selected from across Truman Capote's writing life, these Christmas stories range from nostalgic, semi-autobiographical portraits of childhood to more unsettling tales of darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South of Capote's youth, a young boy, Buddy, and his beloved maiden 'aunt' Sook forage for pecans and whiskey to bake into fruitcakes, make kites - too broke to buy gifts - and rise before dawn to prepare feasts for a ragged assembly of guests; while in other stories, a lonely woman has a troubling encounter in wintry New York and an unlikely festive miracle, of sorts, occurs at a local drugstore.
Brimming with feeling, these sparkling tales convey both the wonder and the chill of Christmas time.