The Difficult Ghost - Searching for Truman Capote

In 1960, Truman Capote arrived in the small town of Palamos on the Costa Brava. He'd hoped a short break from New York's social scene would help him finish the book he was writing about two young men convicted of a horrific murder. He wound up staying in Europe for three years of agonising self-exile, wrestling with his haunting material, crafting a masterpiece, and waiting for the event that would allow him to finish it-the execution of those two men.Following in Capote's footsteps in Palamos, celebrated journalist Leila Guerriero finds almost no trace of those turbulent years. As she sorts through a jumble of competing local accounts and blatant fabrications, she launches a dazzling enquiry into the curious afterlife of writing-and the dark complexities of turning life into literature.

Product details

• Authors: Leila Guerriero, Guerriero Leila
• Assisted by: Megan McDowell (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.08.2025
• EAN: 9781805333005
• ISBN: 978-1-80533-300-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Biography: writers, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Biography, Literature and Literary studies