Music for Chameleons - Softcover

Capote, Truman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451138805 ISBN 13: 9780451138804

Publisher: Signet, 1981

Synopsis

Music For Chameleons Including "Handcarved Coffins" 13 Short Stories and a Nonfiction Novel BY: Truman Capote © 1981 ISBN: 0-451-13880-5  PUBLISHER: A Signet Book/New American Library PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Paperback

About this title

From the Inside Flap

In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders then with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise; and a proper Connecticut householder with a ruinous obsession for a twelve-year-old girl he has never met. And we meet Capote himself, who, whether he is smoking with his cleaning lady or trading sexual gossip with Marilyn Monroe, remainds one of the most elegant, malicious, yet compassionate writers to train his eye on the social fauna of our time.

From the Back Cover

'Everything is displayed in this book: insights and recollections of the famous and the obscure; old jokes and fresh wit... These stories and vignettes will endure.' - New Republic.In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Signet
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0451138805
• ISBN 13: 9780451138804
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 265