Truman Capote : : in Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall his Turbulent Career

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Call Number: 921 Capote, Truman
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In which the reader is introduced to Monroeville (pop. 1,800), Harper Lee, and goes to TC's first big party -- In which TC arrives in New York, goes to a succession of schools, fails math, and meets some new friends -- In which TC joins The New Yorker, upsets Robert Frost, writes his first stories, and joins the New York artistic world -- In which TC is accepted into a writers' colony in upstate New York and into a new circle of friends and meets Newton Arvin -- In which TC takes a train ride, meets the Trillings, and alarms the Island of Nantucket -- In which TC's Other Voices, Other Rooms is published and given the critical once-over -- In which TC embarks on the grand tour and visits the salons of Paris -- In which TC moves out of his mother's apartment and meets his lifelong friend, Jack Dunphy -- In which TC and Jack Dunphy leave for the expatriate life of Europe -- In which TC receives sad news -- In which TC tries his hand at the theater -- In which TC returns to Europe, teaches a large bird epithets, writes Beat the Devil amid bedlam, and arm-wrestles Humphrey Bogart -- In which TC settles across the river -- In which TC speaks about his working habits, his mentors, and his aversion to nuns traveling on the same plane -- In which TC alarms the town of Stonington, Connecticut -- In which the reader is introduced to the swans and TC is seen as counselor and confidant -- In which TC's Breakfast at Tiffany's upsets Mr. Deems -- In which TC decides to go to Kansas -- In which TC is a witness to the doings in the penitentiary warehouse -- In which Chaplain Post describes a portrait in his living room -- In which TC discusses, in a New York Times interview, In Cold Blood and the form he claims to have invented--the nonfiction novel -- In which In Cold Blood stirs up comment -- In which folks from Kansas come to New York and are treated by TC to the lights of Broadway -- In which TC settles in Sagaponack in the Hamptons -- In which TC and his contemporaries have a word to say about each other -- In which TC decides to give his black-and-white ball -- In which the band strikes up -- In which the dancers reminisce -- In which TC steps into bullrings and onto yachts -- In which TC is observed as jester, as little brother to the rich, and as celebrity -- In which the reader is treated to a brief disquisition on fibbing -- In which TC buys a home in Palm Springs and meets an air-conditioning repairman -- In which a banker comes to call on TC at the UN Plaza -- In which Kate Harrington, John O'Shea's daughter, tells her story -- In which society recoils from TC's bombshell -- In which the reader meets two of TC's kindred spirits -- In which TC drifts in and out of the movie business -- In which TC meets an idol -- In which the reader learns of TC's entanglement with Gore -- In which TC takes up the nightlife -- In which TC begins to work for a longtime admirer -- In which TC falls on bad times -- In which TC buys a one-way ticket to LA -- In which mourners, some of dubious note, attend services for TC at the Westwood Mortuary -- In which the mystery of Answered Prayers is examined -- in which the reader is let in on TC's secret -- In which TC and Jack Dunphy are reunited in Crooked Pond -- Coda.
Katherine Graham, Lauren Bacall, Gore Vidal, John Huston, and many other familiars of the writer follow his life and career, from his Southern childhood to his precipitate decline.

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