Gerald Clarke

Capote

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The national bestselling biography and the basis for the film Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in an Academy Award–winning turn.
One of the strongest fiction writers of his generation, Truman Capote became a literary star while still in his teens. His most phenomenal successes include Breakfast at Tiffany’s, In Cold Blood, and Other Voices, Other Rooms. Even while his literary achievements were setting the standards that other fiction and nonfiction writers would follow for generations, Capote descended into a spiral of self-destruction and despair.
This biography by Gerald Clarke was first published in 1988—just four years after Capote’s death. In it, Clarke paints a vivid behind-the-scenes picture of the author’s life—based on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with the man himself and the people close to him. From the glittering heights of notoriety and parties with the rich and famous to his later struggles with addiction, Capote emerges as a richly multidimensional person—both brilliant and flawed.
“A book of extraordinary substance, a study rich in intelligence and compassion . . . To read Capote is to have the sense that someone has put together all the important pieces of this consummate artist’s life, has given everything its due emphasis, and comprehended its ultimate meaning.” —Bruce Bawer, The Wall Street Journal
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850 printed pages
Original publication
2013
Publication year
2013

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  • Maria7780has quoted8 years ago
    became the loving mirror to a whole new group of such remarkable women. He danced with Marilyn Monroe at El Morocco, he conspired with Elizabeth Taylor to save Montgomery Clift, he talked through long nights with Jacqueline Kennedy, and he became the trusted confidant of the most regal of his armada of swans, the grand and social ladies
  • Maria7780has quoted8 years ago
    any woman who took his advice, whatever her age or position in life, he looked upon as his protégée, a work of art that needed only his word or hand to bring her to perfection.
  • Maria7780has quoted8 years ago
    picked her to play Holly Golightly in the movie version of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, but Hollywood, which had different plans for his heroine, chose Audrey Hepburn instead. “Marilyn would have been absolutely marvelous in it,” he stubbornly maintained. “She wanted to play it too, to the extent that she worked up two whole scenes all by herself and did them for me. She was terrifically good

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