Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote 【内有部分划线】

图书标准信息

• 作者 Truman Capote 著
• 出版社 Random House Publishing Group
• 出版时间 2008-11
• ISBN 9780812978919
• 定价 134.40元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 其他
• 页数 528页
• 正文语种 英语
• 丛书 Modern Library Paperbacks

【内容简介】

Perhapsnotwentieth-centurywriterwassoobservantandgracefulachroniclerofhistimesasTrumanCapote.PortraitsandObservationsisthefirstvolumedevotedsolelytoalltheessayseverpublishedbythismostbelovedofwriters.Includedaresuchmasterpiecesofnarrativenonfictionas“TheMusesAreHeard”andtheshortnonfictionnovel“HandcarvedCoffins,”aswellasmanylong-out-of-printessays,includingportraitsofMaeWest,HumphreyBogart,andMarilynMonroe.FromhistravelsketchesofBrooklyn,NewOrleans,andHollywood,writtenwhenhewastwenty-two,totheauthor’slastwrittenwords,composedthedaybeforehisdeathin1984,therecentlydiscovered“RememberingWillaCather,”PortraitsandObservationsputsondisplaythefullspectrumofTrumanCapote’sbrilliance.CertainlyCapotewas,asSomersetMaughamfamouslycalledhim,“astylistofthefirstquality.”Butasthepiecesgatheredhereremindus,hewasalsoanartistofremarkablesubstance.

PraiseforPortraitsandObservations

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“Amust-havetreasureforCapotefans...Thesearedelicious,dramatic,andtendernonfictionportraitsandtales.”
–NPR’sMorningEdition

“Awonderfulvolume...Nearlyeverypagecanbereadwithrealpleasure....Nomatterwhathissubject,[Capote’s]canny,carefulartgivesitwarmandbreathinglife”
–TheWashingtonPostBookWorld

“Everypieceisatreasure....Pagesandpagesofremarkablyevocative,carefulandwell-observedprose[delineate,]inameasuredandelegantmanner,oneofthemostremarkableAmericanliterarylivesofthetwentiethcentury.”
–JaneSmiley,LosAngelesTimesBookReview,

【作者简介】

TrumanCapote(1924-84)rosetointernationalprominencein1948withthepublicationofhisdebutnovel,OtherVoices,OtherRooms.HisotherworksoffictionincludeBreakfastatTiffany’s,ATreeofNight,TheGrassHarp,andSummerCrossing,theauthor’slong-lostfirstnovel,whichwasrediscoveredin2004andpublishedbyRandomHousein2005.HisnonfictionnovelInColdBloodiswidelyconsideredoneofthegreatestbooksofthetwentiethcentury.