Truman Capote's dazzling New York novel Breakfast at Tiffany's that inspired the classic 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.
'What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits...'Meet Holly Golightly - a free spirited, lop-sided romantic girl about town.
With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly is a style sensation wherever she goes. Her apartment rocks to Martini-soaked parties and she plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate dream - to find a real life place like Tiffany's that makes her feel at home.
Full of sharp wit and exuberant, larger-than-life characters which vividly capture the restless, madcap era of 1940s New York, Breakfast at Tiffany's will make you fall in love, perhaps for the first time, with a book.
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“这是史上非常浪漫的故事。”——《卫报》艾利克斯·詹姆斯
“一个大师级作家……是心在歌唱,故事在飞翔。”——《纽约时报》
“本世纪伟大的故事讲述者之一。”——Independent on Sunday
The most romantic story ever written -- Alex James,Guardian
A master writer ... makes the heart sing and the narrative fly.——The New York Times
One of the century's greatest storytellers.——Independent on Sunday
作者简介
1924年,杜鲁门·卡波特出生于新奥尔良,在美国南方的许多地方长大,他的家人在新奥尔良过冬,在阿拉巴马州和新乔治亚州避暑。14岁时,他已经开始写短篇小说,其中一些已经出版。他15岁时离开学校,随后在《纽约客》工作,这是他的固定工作。卡波特在《纽约客》(the New Yorker)上的表现不佳,他在路易斯安那州的一个农场待了两年,在那里他创作了《其他声音》(Other Voices, Other Rooms)(1948年)。他曾在希腊、意大利、非洲和西印度群岛生活过一段时间,在俄罗斯和东方旅行过。他的作品包括《夜之树与其他故事》(1949)、《草竖琴》(1951)、《蒂凡尼的早餐》(1958)、《冷血》(1965),这些都是企鹅出版社出版的引起争议的作品,《变色龙的音乐》(1980)和《回应祈祷》(1986)。杜鲁门·卡波特于1984年8月去世。
Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1924 and was raised in various parts of the south, his family spending winters in New Orleans and summers in Alabama and New Georgia. By the age of fourteen he had already started writing short stories, some of which were published. He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for the New Yorker which provided his first - and last - regular job. Following his spell with the New Yorker, Capote spent two years on a Louisiana farm where he wrote Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He lived, at one time or another, in Greece, Italy, Africa and the West Indies, and travelled in Russia and the Orient. He is the author of many highly praised books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories (1949), The Grass Harp (1951), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), In Cold Blood (1965), which immediately became the centre of a storm of controversy on its publication, Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of which are published by Penguin. Truman Capote died in August 1984.
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