Breakfast at Tiffany's

Gorgeous little hardbound issue of Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Lovely addition to my collection and will definitely be looking to this seller for additional volumns. Carefully wrapped and protected in shipment. Only suggestion is to switch to brown paper padding and shipping envelope to reduce trash. Thank you!

Although I was aware of the man. I had never read anything by Capote before. The man weirs beautifully. He paints picture in your head with word that are never overly descriptive or pretentious like many writer today. He make even the slightest thing interesting like making Christmas fruitcakes.The most famous story differs from the movie in many way, but I must confess every time I read Holly’s dialogue. I heard Audrey Hepburn’s voice in my head.

"Everyone" knows Truman Capote's novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's, is much darker than the Audrey Hepburn Moon River romp through Manhattan, but has anyone actually read it?I too was enchanted by Hepburn as modern woman, little black dress, chic and party all night lifestyle. In the movie you would never "know" she was a hooker.Note: To even utter the word, hooker, in 2020, is comical for reasons contemporary and otherwise."... because it was Audrey who was doing it - living alone, going out, looking fabulous and getting a little drunk, didn't look so bad anymore.""Being single actually seemed shame-free. It seemed fun.""... so as a haute hooker, Audrey Hepburn was a fairy godmother, not only to feminism but to the prevailing ethos that style and cool trump all," says Maureen Dowd, columnist for the New York Times.I bought it (the 50th Anniversary Edition), read it, enjoyed it and was untethered by the film. I sought out differences major and minor; most notably George Peppard's character doesn't exist in the book and is more of an amalgamation: part narrator, part lover, part infatuation, part agent provocateur.Capote's writing enchants as well and I found myself digging for clues less and less.But I did picture Hepburn (how could I not?) - she is still Lulamae Barnes ("... who'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart"), from Tulip, Texas at heart, and Holly Golightly in all parts encrusted.We think we know Holly Golightly ("I'm always top banana in the shock department.") - but really we know Audrey Hepburn."She is a beguiling character: a seductive but kooky society girl, maddeningly flitting and flirtatious. She's an unknowable, untameable, 'wild thing' who fled to New York from a troubled hillbilly upbringing to reinvent herself."This is what we remember, as our narrator laments.She hadn't named her cat because he hadn't belonged to somebody.Says Holly, "We don't belong to each other. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together.I'm not quite sure where that is just yet, but I know what it's like.""It's like Tiffany's."

The other day, I received a question on facebook "Which scene do you like the best in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's ?" At that time, I felt the desire to see this movie again shooting through my body. So I went to see it. The temptation to compare the movie to the original book entered my mind. So I read it in Japanese again too. It was an amazingly translated one by a famous university professor. Eventually, the desire to read the original book in English drove me to buy this book from Amazon.com.This book throws deep questions to me about freedom. Holly Golightly's cat had no name. It was only called "cat". To have a name means to be identified; defined and stipulated as one concrete existence. It means to lose one's freedom in a sense. Holly avoided being restricted by something. So she printed on her card: Miss Holiday Golightly, Traveling. I could discovered a part of a song from the musical Oklahoma! which Holly sang on the fire escape.Don't wanna sleep,Don't wanna die,Just wanna go a-travelin'Through the pastures of the skyHolly brings me an enigmatic expression: reds. Judging from the conversation with Fred at her home party, the reds mean the horrible mental status different from the blues. She says "No, the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going happen, only you don't know what it is. You've had that feeling?" Of course I don't know the expression "reds". I have never had the opportunity to feel the "reds". And this is why I have felt so extremely interested in this novel and its movie.As for the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, I admire the work of its production staff. They portray the important scenes and phrases of this original novel accurately and honestly. I heard that turmoil occurred after Audrey Hepburn was appointed to the lead role Holly instead of Marilyn Monroe.Though the scenario was rewritten in a short time, I recall the circumstances of the birth of the Magic Flute by Mozart, the movie conserves author's idea and wears sophisticated atmosphere. The song Moon River is just in the movie and a song from the "Oklahoma!" is more befitting to this novel.My family loves this movie and my mother loved the Holly's hair style at the Forty-second Street public library and she delighted in adopting the same hair style for herself which she wore for her children.I praise the genius of Truman Capote, I admire the work of its movie production staff and I express my thanks to Ms. Betsy Lewis of BOOK RESCUE LLC who searched this one for me running frantically to and fro between her book barns and gave me the opportunity to read this original novel.Victor Truemann, Japanese

Like other famous southern writes such as Harper Lee and Margaret Mitchell, I have treated Truman Capote as one on southern writers. I finally picked this book and read. I had images of Holly only from the movie, so when I found that she actually has blonde hair in the book, it was something surprising and I anticipated I will find some new items more. In the end, I found the book and movie share some similar episodes but the ending is different. Movie focuses on love story, but the book focuses on Holly's freedom. It's fun to read but Breakfast At Tiffany's is not the book to cherish or brighten your spirit. It is more to face what you want to make your future, what are your higher priority of life, those kind of thing. But overall it's a good book. Other short stories teach values as well.

In 1940s New York City, beautiful playgirl Holly Golightly lives on gifts from admirers and regular payments from the Mafia for disingenuously delivering ‘weather reports’ for them. My memories of the 1961 movie made it impossible for me to react freshly to this. I don’t think I liked it much. The characters are too glib, shallow, and in some cases caricatured, to care about or believe in. It reads as a caper, a spoof, without serious intent, but not particularly funny either. Beneath the Hollywood veneer and compulsive watchability of Audrey Hepburn, the same was true of the film; but I’d hoped the novella would offer more. The three stories also included in the Penguin edition (House of flowers, A diamond guitar, and A Christmas memory) were okay but also lightweight.

Not same as online picture. The book cover is totally different when arrived. just a picture of a hand over a wine glass? Where’s the Audrey Hepburn look with sunglasses on cover ? Weird front cover photo though. I was expecting the Audrey Hepburn front cover look. Purchased as a gift. Disappointed .

I had to read one of Capotes’s longer works after being entranced by a melancholic collection of his short stories, and like many readers before me I now find myself captivated by the character of Holly Golightly.As her adopted surname suggests, and the card on her mailbox confirms, she is happiest when constantly travelling lightly through life, countries and even people, and disaster only comes when she starts to depend on people and thinks about settling down. However while Holly goes lightly she crushes hearts and sticks in minds.she treads much more heavily on people’s hearts and she certainly sticks in our minds.We however get to be “Fred”. Almost the only flawless character in the book, he is our constant viewpoint. We seem to come to know him well yet by the end we realise we don’t know his history, nor how he sustains himself, nor even what his real name is. However at the end he still can’t help hoping that Holly is happy and because he can’t, then neither can we.Oh and do read the three great Capote short stories that usually also come collected with this novella. And what next after that? Well I do believe that there was some 1960’s film or other based on this – I wonder if it’s any good….

❤ ''Dont you just love it'' ''Love What?'' '' Tiffany's '' ❤What girl hasn't seen this movie or read the book and wanted to be just like Holly Golightly.I decided to read Breakfast at Tiffany’s because of the iconic movie in which Audrey Hepburn plays a 19-year-old Holly Golightly. At 176 pages this is a light read, and structured more like a story than a novel. The author paints her in a way that makes you struggle between admiring her, and feeling sorry for her.This is an old time classic and Truman Capote's Is an Amazing writer. His descriptions are so vivid that, as your thinking them up in your mind, it's as if you're actually in the story. Capote is a magnificent storyteller.Would without a doubt recommend darlings

I was really surprised with this book. Not much of a story! I had not even realised that it had ended - the following 3 chapters also being short insipid stories. How someone can call this book "romantic" is beyond me. Maybe I should watch the film again. At least I like the song by "Deep Blue Something"! The best bit of the story was the name "Sally Tomato".