杜鲁门·卡波蒂（Truman Capote），一九二四年九月三十日生于美国新奥尔良。一九四八年第一部长篇小说《别的声音，别的房间》的出版为他赢得国际声誉，此后的创作使他成为战后美国文坛最为著名的作家之一。他两度荣获欧·亨利短篇小说奖，是美国艺术与文学院院士。卡波蒂的其他重要作品包括小说《草竖琴》、《蒂凡尼的早餐》以及“非虚构小说”《冷血》。一九八四年八月二十五日病逝于洛杉矶

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在线阅读本书 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.

杜鲁门·卡波特（Truman Capote, 1924—1984） 美国作家。1924年出生于新奥尔良，11岁开始文学创作。1958年，成名作《蒂凡尼的早餐》问世。1966年，代表作《冷血》出版，成为非虚构写作史上的里程碑。1984年8月25日于洛杉矶去世。

The early fiction of one of the nation’s most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature Recently discovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his late teens and early twenties, before he penned such classics as Other Voices,...(展开全部)

Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as grotesque as they were compassionate. Now, on the occasion of what would have been his eightieth birthday, the...(展开全部)

A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story. Ranging from the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and people of Capote’s oeuvre are here, in stories as e...(展开全部)

Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as grotesque as they were compassionate. Now, on the occasion of what would have been his eightieth birthday, the...(展开全部)

A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story. Ranging from the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and people of Capote’s oeuvre are here, in stories as e...(展开全部)

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. Included are such masterpieces of narrative nonfiction as “The Muses Are Heard” and the short nonfiction novel “Handcarved Coffins,” as well...(展开全部)