Portraits and Observations

Resumen del libro

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 as many long-out-of-print essays, including portraits of Mae West, Humphrey Bogart, and Marilyn Monroe. From his travel sketches of Brooklyn, New Orleans, and Hollywood, written when he was twenty-two, to the authors last written words, composed the day before his death in 1984, the recently discovered 'Remembering Willa Cather,' Portraits and Observations puts on display the full spectrum of Truman Capotes brilliance. Certainly Capote was, as Somerset Maugham famously called him, 'a stylist of the first quality.' But as the pieces gathered here remind us, he was also an artist of remarkable substance.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Truman Capote (1924-1984) es uno de los mejores escritores norteamericanos del siglo XX. Anagrama le ha dedicado una Biblioteca Truman Capote: Otras voces, otros ámbitos, Un árbol de noche, Desayuno en Tiffanyx{0026} x02019;s, A sangre fría, Música para camaleones, Plegarias atendidas, El arpa de hierba, Retratos, Tres cuentos, Los perros ladran, Cuentos completos y Crucero de verano.x{0026}lt;/p