Truman Capote's dazzling New York novel Breakfast at Tiffany's that
inspired the classic 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn is beautifully
repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'What I've found
does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It
calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it;
nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in
their nice suits...' Meet Holly Golightly - a free spirited, lop-sided
romantic girl about town. With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose,
dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly is a style sensation
wherever she goes. Her apartment rocks to Martini-soaked parties and she
plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike. Yet Holly never
loses sight of her ultimate dream - to find a real life place like
Tiffany's that makes her feel at home. Full of sharp wit and exuberant,
larger-than-life characters which vividly capture the restless, madcap
era of 1940s New York, Breakfast at Tiffany's will make you fall in
love, perhaps for the first time, with a book. A master writer ...makes
the heart sing and the narrative fly. (The New York Times). The
most romantic story ever written. (Alex James, Guardian). One of the
century's greatest storytellers. (Independent on Sunday). Truman
Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925. By the age of fourteen he had
already started writing short stories, some of which were published.
After leaving school at fifteen he worked for the New Yorker, his first -
and last - regular job. Following this Capote spent two years on a
Louisiana farm where he wrote Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He
lived, at one time or another, in Greece, Italy, Africa and the West
Indies, and travelled in Russia and the Orient. Capote is the author of
many highly acclaimed books, including A Tree of Night and Other
Stories (1949), The Grass Harp (1951), Breakfast at Tiffany's
(1958), In Cold Blood (1965), which immediately became the centre of a
storm of controversy on its publication, Music for Chameleons (1980)
and Answered Prayers (1986). Truman Capote died in 1984.
