(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
Truman Capote
Author
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
First published serially in "The New Yorker" in 1965, Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" follows the lives of Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, and the lives of the members of the Clutter family, who the two men killed on November 15, 1959.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 300 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as grotesque as they were compassionate. Now, on the occasion of what would have been his eightieth birthday, the Modern Library presents the first collection that includes all of Capote's...
Series
Paramount centennial collection volume 5
Language
English
Description
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. Her next-door neighbor, a writer, is "sponsored" by a wealthy patroness. Guessing who's the right man for Holly is easy; seeing just how romance blossoms is one of the enduring delights of the film.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 177 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a small Southern town, a teenage girl anxiously waits for her date to arrive. A little boy meets his dream dog in Central Park. A woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lover's eyes. Best friends discuss the theoretical murder of husbands. In these never-before-published stories, written by Truman Capote when he was in his teens and twenties, Capote-the-Writer is already recognizable. His prose: witty, poignant, and crystal-clear....
Author
Publisher
The Modern Library
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Modern Library edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 150 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Truman Capote's unfinished final novel is an unsparing tell-all of New York high society that sent a seismic shock through Capote's social circle--and the entire literary world."-- Dust jacket flap.
"Catapulted from a childhood spent in a Missouri orphanage to the dizzying peaks of New York high society, the destitute and debauched writer P. B. Jones spends his days moving between the paltry cell of a Manhattan Y.M.C.A. and the opulent playgrounds...
Author
Publisher
The Little Bookroom
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2001, The Little Bookroom published Truman Capote's long-out-of-print homage to Brooklyn, A House in the Heights. In 2014, more than fifty years after they were taken, the original photographs commissioned to illustrate the piece have been discovered by the photographer's son. Also found among the negatives were portraits of Capote taken on that same day; none of the photos have ever been published. Now, in a new edition with a new title, Brooklyn...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 142 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Manhattan socialite Grady McNeil is free to pursue her illicit romance with Clyde Manzer, a parking lot attendant from Brooklyn, when her parents decide to leave her alone for the summer.
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A little boy is abandoned by his parents and raised by some older unmarried cousins, where he develops a close bond with one of the ladies. When he is urged to move on with his life by one of them, he never forgets the memories of his favorite friend.
19) One Christmas
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Standard full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Buddy finds himself in New Orleans spending the holidays with his estranged father. Buddy dreams of finding Santa, a snow-covered New Orleans and a new relationship with his father.
20) The innocents
Series
Criterion collection volume 727
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD special edition ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
Deborah Kerr stars as an emotionally fragile governess who comes to suspect that there is something very, very wrong with her precocious new charges. A psychosexually intensified adaptation of Henry James's classic The Turn of the Screw, co-written by Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) and directed by Jack Clayton (Room at the Top).