Best Books By Truman Capote
List of 5 best books written by Truman Capote. Check out the booklist.
1. In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote is one of the most famous books of its time. It is a non-fiction novel, and tells the story of a quadruple murder of a Kansas farmer, his wife, and two of their four children. It follows the genre of crime writing.
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2. The Complete Stories
Including a previously-unpublished story ‘The Bargain’, Truman Capote’s The Complete Stories is the first ever complete collection stories from one of the masters of American literature, and the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Reynolds Price.
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3. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn’s sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, Breakfast at Tiffany’s is Truman Capote’s timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly, published in Penguin Modern Classics.
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4. Portraits and Observations
Perhaps no twentieth-century writer was so observant and graceful a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers.
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5. Answered Prayers
P.B. Jones is the amoral, bisexual protagonist of this unfinished novel. He discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. He discovers along the way that prayers that are answered cause more pain than those that remain ignored.
