The early stories of Truman Capote - Truman Capote

'Breathtaking
... The stories are special. They stand in their own right as lovely
vignettes of the lives of the lonely, broken and troubled' Andrew
Johnson, Independent

Written
when Truman Capote was in his teens and twenties, these
recently-discovered short stories give a rare insight into an American
icon. Tales of disappointed lovers, ageing spinsters, hoboes and
murderous housewives, of yearning, poverty, despair, compassion, wit and
wonder, they show us the boy from Alabama who became one of the
twentieth century's most celebrated literary voices.

'An intriguing glimpse of Capote as a
boy: precocious, provocative, spirited and strange, a "pocket Merlin"
spinning tall tales' Olivia Laing, New Statesman