From instant celebrity at age 23 to overweight, alcoholic loner in his 50s, Truman Capote streaked across the middle of this century on a comet of genius, self-destruction, and fame. Drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with Capote and with nearly everyone who knew him, and with exclusive access to personal papers, Gerald Clarke has written the definitive biography of an incomparable man and his time."Extraordinary . . . Rich in intelligence and compassion . . . One can't put the book down. Few literary biographies in recent memory have been so vivid and absorbing." -- Bruce Bawer, The Wall Street JournalFrom the Trade Paperback edition.

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Product Description: Incisivo, mordaz, seductor, impertinente, cinico y romantico, Truman Capote, el enfant terrible de las letras norteamericanas, no es solo uno de los grandes narradores del siglo XX, sino tambien un icono cultural, un mito, una leyenda que se agranda con el paso del tiempo...read more

A portrait based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the famous author of such works as In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's traces his eccentric childhood in Alabama, his relationships with such contemporaries as Grace Paley and Gore Vidal, and his struggles with alcohol and drug abuse. Reprint.

Spanning his entire life, this collection of private letters by the acclaimed author of In Cold Blood and other masterworks includes Capote's correspondence with David O. Selznick, Edith Sitwell, Cecil Beaton, Christopher Isherwood, Bennett Cerf, and Random House editor Robert Linscott, among many others. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: Stephen Rogers' five-year-old daughter, Jamie, has beaten her cancer. This much he knows for certain. But when she dies of uncontrolled seizures in the high tech MRI machine, he just cannot accept that her cancer had returned. Their doctor, Colleen O'Brian, must decide to help this radical commodities trader solve his daughter's death, or trust her superiors at the hospital...read more

A compelling portrayal of the Hollywood superstar covers Garland's childhood, her struggles to establish herself in one of the industry's great studios, her often traumatic love affairs, and much more. By the author of Capote. Reprint. 40,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Based on interviews with the author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's and with nearly everyone who knew him, this absorbing, definitive, and generously illustrated biography follows Truman Capote from his eccentric childhood in Alabama to the heights of New York society...read more

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