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Loading... Music for Chameleons (1980)by Truman Capote
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. �� Music for Chameleons. New writing is a somewhat uneven, but interesting collection of short fiction, or perhaps better say short prose. Truman Capote is most famous for his novel In cold blood which is often described as nonfiction. This collection of "new writing" contains a long prose text "Handcarved coffins", subtitles 'A nonfiction account of an American crime' which deploys the same technique. It is an exciting, and intriguing story. The most memorable other story in this collection is the title story "Music for Chameleons" for it's startling idea. no reviews | add a review
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In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders then with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise; and a proper Connecticut householder with a ruinous obsession for a twelve-year-old girl he has never met. And we meet Capote himself, who, whether he is smoking with his cleaning lady or trading sexual gossip with Marilyn Monroe, remains one of the most elegant, malicious, yet compassionate writers to train his eye on the social fauna of our time. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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