Breakfast at Tiffany's

Truman Capote

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, May 15, 2012 - Fiction - 192 pages

Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's. In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape—her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.

This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory,” which the Saturday Review called “one of the most moving stories in our language.” It is a tale of two innocents—a small boy and the old woman who is his best friend—whose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.

About the author

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Breakfast at Tiffany's; Vintage International
• Author: Truman Capote
• Edition: unabridged, reprint
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012
• ISBN: 0345803051, 9780345803054
• Length: 192 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Urban & Street Lit