Breakfast at Tiffany'sBreakfast at Tiffany's
a Short Novel and Three Stories
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Current format, Book, 1958, , Available . Offered in 0 more formatsHouse of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory are included with the tale of a fun-loving amoral playgirl in New York City
<p><b><b><b>Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's.</b> In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape—her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.</b><br></b><br>This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory,” which the <i>Saturday Review</i> called “one of the most moving stories in our language.” It is a tale of two innocents—a small boy and the old woman who is his best friend—whose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.</p>
<p><b><b><b>Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's.</b> In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape—her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.</b><br></b><br>This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory,” which the <i>Saturday Review</i> called “one of the most moving stories in our language.” It is a tale of two innocents—a small boy and the old woman who is his best friend—whose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.</p>
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.
This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, 'House of Flowers," 'A Diamond Guitar," and 'A Christmas Memory," which the Saturday Review called 'one of the most moving stories in our language.' It is a tale of two innocents'a small boy and the old woman who is his best friend'whose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.
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