Music for Chameleons
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Music for chameleons -- Hancarved coffins -- Conversational portraits.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Vintage Books, 1994.
Year Published: 1994
Description: xix, 262 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0679745661 (pbk.)
9780679745662 (pbk.)
SUBJECTS
Short stories, American.