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A Christmas Memory

A Christmas Memory

Capote, Truman

Hardcover

Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)

Biographies GeneralClassic FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0679602372
ISBN13: 9780679602378
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: Nov 12 1996
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.61 Width: 4.87 Depth: 7.52
Language: English
Three holiday stories in one festive volume from literary titan Truman Capote: A Christmas Memory, The Thanksgiving Visitor, and One Christmas

Capote, in a bright, fluttering, wheeling way, makes all the tinsel and confetti and embroidery that bind together such delicate emotions as nostalgia and sentimentality come vigorously to life.--The New Yorker, on A Christmas Memory

Here are three holiday stories that Truman Capote himself regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction. A Christmas Memory and The Thanksgiving Visitor were inspired by Capote's early years with a family of distant relatives in rural Alabama. These two childhood tales pay loving tribute to an eccentric old-maid cousin, Miss Sook Faulk, who became Capote's best friend.

In A Christmas Memory, Miss Sook, Buddy (the narrator), and their dog, Queenie, celebrate the yuletide in a hilariously tipsy state. In the poignant reminiscence One Christmas, six-year-old Buddy journeys to New Orleans for a reunion with his estranged father that shatters many illusions. And in The Thanksgiving Visitor, Miss Sook invites an unexpected guest to the holiday meal: the school bully, Odd Henderson, whom Buddy calls the meanest human creature in my experience.

Distinguished by Capote's delicate interplay of childhood sensibility and recollective vision, these three classics are gems that celebrate the unique bonds of friends and family.

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