Too Brief a Treat - The Letters of Truman Capote (2004. e2012)

Capote was an inveterate letter writer. He wrote letters as he spoke: emphatically, spontaneously, and passionately. Spanning more than four decades, his letters are the closest thing we have to a Capote autobiography, showing us the uncannily self-possessed naïf who jumped headlong into the post–World War II New York literary scene; the more mature Capote of the 1950s; the Capote of the early 1960s, immersed in the research and writing of In Cold Blood; and Capote later in life, as things seem to be unraveling.

With cameos by a veritable who’s who of twentieth-century litterati, Too Brief a Treat shines a spotlight on the life and times of an incomparable American writer. 

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