The Early Stories of Truman Capote - Hardcover

Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925. He is the author of many highly praised 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), all of which are published by Penguin. Truman Capote died in August 1984.

Breathtaking in their precocity, craftsmanship, simplicity and the tenderness [Capote] became renowned for ... The stories are special ... They stand in their own right as lovely vignettes of the lives of the lonely, broken and troubled -- Andrew Johnson * Independent * The work of a precocious teenager . . . There is certainly plenty in Capote's Early Stories to make aspiring writers, teenage or otherwise, wonder what they're doing with their lives -- Sam Kitchener * Telegraph * An intriguing glimpse of Capote as a boy: precocious, provocative, spirited and strange, a "pocket Merlin" spinning tall tales -- Olivia Laing * New Statesman * Along with cinematic elan [THE EARLY STORIES] convey a strong flavour of reportage, hinting at what was to come -- Hephzibah Anderson * Observer * The stories prefigure Capote's later writing to a striking degree . . . [The Early Stories] demonstrate many of the skills that Capote would develop as his work matured - his lyricism and dexterity with imagery, as well as his exceptional ear for the multiple and varied rhythms of speech. Even if the writer had not yet mastered his craft, Capote's admirers will find The Early Stories a valuable addition -- Andrew Irwin * Times Literary Supplement *