A Christmas Memory - (Modern Library (Hardcover)) by Truman Capote (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Taking its place next to Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood on the Modern Library bookshelf is this new and original edition of Capote's most famous short stories: "A Christmas Memory", "One Christmas", and "A Thanksgiving Memory". All three stories are distinguished by Capote's delicate interplay of childhood sensibility and recollective vision.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A holiday classic from one of the greatest writers and most fascinating society figures in American history (<i>Vanity Fair</i>)!</b> <p/>First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection from Truman Capote (<i>In Cold Blood</i>; <i>Breakfast at Tiffany's</i>) about his rural Alabama boyhood is a perfect gift for Capote's fans young and old. <p/>Seven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin, Miss Sook Falk: It's fruitcake weather! Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship and the memories the two friends share of beloved holiday rituals. <p/><i>A Christmas Memory </i>has been described as [a] gem of a holiday story (<i>School Library Journal</i>, starred review), and this warm and delicately illustrated edition is one you'll want to add to any Christmas or Capote collection.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Available for the first time in a single volume are the three holiday stories that Truman Capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction. Two of these childhood memoirs - "A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor" - center on the author's early years with a family of distant relatives in rural Alabama. Both pay loving tribute to an eccentric old-maid cousin, Miss Sook Faulk, who became his 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 the school bully, Odd Henderson - called by Buddy "the meanest human creature in my experience" - to Thanksgiving dinner.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>TRUMAN CAPOTE was born in 1924 and died in 1984. Based on his own boyhood in rural Alabama in the 1930s, <i>A Christmas Memory</i> was orginally published in <i>Mademoiselle</i> in 1956 and later was included in <i>Breakfast at Tiffany's</i>. <p/>BETH PECK, a designer and illustrator of many children's books, fell in love with the writing of Truman Capote and counts her paintings for <i>A Christmas Memory</i> and <i>The Thanksgiving Visitor</i>, also by Capote, among the work that is closest to her heart.
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