Truman Capote : in which various friends, enemies, acquaintances, and detractors recall his turbulent career / George Plimpton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plimpton, George.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.

Capote, Truman.

Friends and associates.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Capote, Truman, 1924-1984--Friends and associates.

Friendship.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xiv, 498 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1997.

Summary:

Using oral biography, a technique that perfectly matches the style of his subject, George Plimpton blends the voices of Capote's lovers, haters, acquaintances, and colleagues into a highly readable narrative. Here we are present for the entire span of Capote's life: his Southern childhood and his early days in New York; his first literary success with the publication of Other Voices, Other Rooms; his highly active love life; the groundbreaking excitement of In Cold Blood, the first "nonfiction novel"; his years as a jet-setter; and his final days of flagging inspiration, alcoholism, and isolation. All his famous friends and enemies are here: Katherine Graham, Lauren Bacall, Gore Vidal, Joan Didion, William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, Lee Radziwill, John Huston, John Knowles, William F. Buckley, Jr., and dozens of others.

Contents:

In Which the Reader Is Introduced to Monroeville (pop. 1,800), Harper Lee, and Goes to TC's First Big Party

In Which TC Arrives in New York, Goes to a Succession of Schools, Fails Math, and Meets Some New Friends

In Which TC Joins The New Yorker, Upsets Robert Frost, Writes His First Stories, and Joins the New York Artistic World

In Which TC Is Accepted into a Writers' Colony in Upstate New York and into a New Circle of Friends and Meets Newton Arvin

In Which TC Takes a Train Ride, Meets the Trillings, and Alarms the Island of Nantucket

In Which TC's Other Voices, Other Rooms Is Published and Given the Critical Once-Over

In Which TC Embarks on the Grand Tour and Visits the Salons of Paris

In Which TC Moves Out of His Mother's Apartment and Meets His Lifelong Friend, Jack Dunphy

In Which TC and Jack Dunphy Leave for the Expatriate Life of Europe

In Which TC Receives Sad News

In Which TC Tries His Hand at the Theater

In Which TC Returns to Europe, Teaches a Large Bird Epithets, Writes Beat the Devil amid Bedlam, and Arm-Wrestles Humphrey Bogart

In Which TC Settles Across the River

In Which TC Speaks About His Working Habits, His Mentors, and His Aversion to Nuns Traveling on the Same Plane

In Which TC Alarms the Town of Stonington, Connecticut

In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Swans and TC Is Seen as Counselor and Confidant

In Which TC's Breakfast at Tiffany's Upsets Mr. Deems

In Which TC Decides to Go to Kansas

In Which TC Is a Witness to the Doings in the Penitentiary Warehouse.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-488) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 is advance reading copy.

Other Format:

Online version: Plimpton, George. Truman Capote.

ISBN:

0385232497

9780385232494

OCLC:

36910032

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