The Early Stories

Breathtaking ... The stories are special. They stand in their own right as lovely vignettes of the lives of the lonely, broken and troubled'' Andrew Johnson, Independentbr>br>Written when Truman Capote was in his teens and twenties, these recently-discovered short stories give a rare insight into an American icon. Tales of disappointed lovers, ageing spinsters, hoboes and murderous housewives, of yearning, poverty, despair, compassion, wit and wonder, they show us the boy from Alabama who became one of the twentieth century''s most celebrated literary voices.br>br>''An intriguing glimpse of Capote as a boy: precocious, provocative, spirited and strange, a "pocket Merlin" spinning tall tales'' Olivia Laing, New Statesman>

Product details

• Authors: Truman Capote
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780241202425
• ISBN: 978-0-241-20242-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary