A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

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	• A Christmas Memory: One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving Visitor (Modern Library) Truman Capote The Modern Library, 1996 - 128 pages average customer review:based on 74 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

We shared this book at our Christmas book club and were touched by Capote's writing.

Truman Capote: A Christmas Memory

Beautifully bound and covered. Wonderfully written; an understatement. Got it as a present for my son's English teacher. Perfect.

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Haruki Murakami's favorite book

I read "Children on their Birthdays" twenty years ago. I found so many peculiar characters in the story, but they were all innocent. Also I felt a small dusty town in the south. Peculiar, innocent, and dusty?they still impress on me. Three stories of literary calendar?two Christmas stories and one Thanksgiving in this book also take on peculiarity and innocence. Old cousins, dogs, and bullies they are all innocent. And so was Capote. However, I never found "dusty", but "breezy" in these stories. Capote is one of Haruki Murakami's favorite authors, and he translated some Capote's stories into Japanese. He translated them so good that we sometimes notice his original stories and his translation indistinguishable from one another.

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Enchanting

This was my first taste of Truman Capote away from Breakfast at Tiffany's, and I have to admit that I was blown away by these stories. Rarely does a story pull at my heart strings anymore, but these stories practically left me in tears. Incredibly moving.

Sweet and Sad and Superb!

There is a sadness that colors all of Capote's writing. And there's also a sweetness and innocence. Capote set high standards for himself and it shows in his virtually flawless writing. "A Christmas Memory" is a classic holiday story written in the distinctive Capote style. And like all of his writing it is sweet and sad and superb!

Also recommended: Christmas Gifts, Christmas Voices--an excellent Capote-like tale of enduring and prevailing.

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Taking its place next to Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood on the Modern Library bookshelf is this new and original edition of Capote's most famous short stories: "A Christmas Memory, " "One Christmas, " and "A Thanksgiving Memory." All three stories are distinguished by Capote's delicate interplay of childhood sensibility and recollective vision.

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