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Title: Capote: A Biography by Gerald Clarke ISBN: 078670912X Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: 10 December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Wildly fascinating, equally tragic.
Comment: Wow, what a story! Reads more like a spectacular novel than biography...
An absolutely fantastic insight into elite society's beloved (and soon after, elite society's abhorred) and eccentric Puck who enrapts everyone in his midst with wild tales, crazy antics, and just the peculiarities of his odd character. For many years, Truman enjoyed the intimacy of friendship, and, supposedly confidence, with (the wives of) presidents, kings, business moguls and Hollywood's nobility of which Clark has researched and presented with wonderful insights from Truman's closest friends, great nay-sayers and, at times, even enemies. The biography sexually links Capote with such notable artists as Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal--and perhaps Albert Camus--to Errol Flynn, and Marlon Brando! Naturally, one knows of the homosexuality present in the artistic community, but to see it on paper, seems almost lascivious if not for Capote's frailties. Not only Capote's writings, but his grand orchestrations of spectacular peoples' lives, garnered glamorous attention in the US as well as around the globe, but unfortunately, he never escapes his desperate need of love and attention formed through an abusive childhood and eventually it becomes his undoing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing book about an amazing personality
Comment: I bought this book partly because I so enjoyed Gerald Clarke's biography of Judy Garland, "Get Happy," and Clarke does not disappoint. "Capote" is meticulously researched and yet reads like the most entertaining novel, it's so interesting and filled with such extraordinary characters. I've always been fascinated by Truman Capote, and Clarke has done a wonderful job of bringing him to life in a very balanced, human way.
Rating: 5
Summary: The true Capote
Comment: I found this excellent biography entertaining in two ways: for the true and hard way Capote's life was captured, highs and lows and everything in between, and for the prose itself that was very fine, I thought. I am a Southerner myself, from very close to Capote's South Alabama, and can vouch for the authenticity of the portrayal of his early years. I think this book is a must-read for fans of southern lit or southern writers, a wonderful companion to Plimpton's latest on Capote. Capote was lucky to have this biographer; he would have been pleased.
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Title: Conversations with Capote by Lawrence Grobel, James A. Michener ISBN: 0306809443 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel (Vintage International) by Truman Capote ISBN: 0679751823 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Grass Harp: Including a Tree of Night and Other Stories (First Vintage International) by Truman Capote ISBN: 0679745572 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintences and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career by George Plimpton ISBN: 0385491735 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 10 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Vintage International) by Truman Capote ISBN: 0679745580 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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