Breakfast at Tiffany's

Out of the 4 stories contained in this collection, I always expected myself to like 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'. The movie is one of my most rewatched films and it's too bad that I waited so long to read Capote's book. Half of me was afraid that the book might not live up to the movie, and I did not want to read a lesser version of a story that I love so much. Needless to say, such fears were useless. There are difference between the two storylines, but it's hard to pick which version I like better. Both are equally good. Capote's writing simply captivates you.The big surprise for me was 'A Christmas Memory'. I can't remember the last time I read a short story that touched me so.With just 150 pages I have fallen in love with the genius that Truman Capote is.

It’s nice and can be finished easily within a few days. Narrated well with an engaging plot. You may give it a go.

Breakfast at Tiffany'sAuthor:Truman Capote(Suddenly becomes my favourite author.I have read all his stories and also the sensational non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.Seems I will soon devour rest of his writings...) His story 'One Christmas Memory'...almost a non-fiction again...has carved a permanent place in my heart...One of the most poignant I have ever read...And, please, don't take it lightly...I have been reading Hemingway side by side.I wish Capote would have lived longer and would have written more..And more people knew about his writings.A 98 pages one breath long story .The central character of this book is Holly Golightly..a girl who hates the thought of any living being kept in cages..who advises against falling in love with wild beings...hawks..crows..or women...Who doesn't think that a person can ever belong to any other person and most importantly, she has her concept of what a place with complete bliss would be like...it would be like Breakfast at Tiffany's....where the confidence,elegance and comfort arising out of affluence permeates the ambience...and nothing can go wrong at such places. Everything in a calm control.All women have a Holly in them..and all have their own imagination of their personal breakfasts at Tiffany's.(About the movie:May be later....someday we will talk about that....There is a wonderful movie with the same name based on this book. A beautiful movie with Audrey Hepburn as Holly....Well, I don't ever get into the debate of the book or the movie.They are two separate media..asking for different sets of methods and treatments...in different types of hands......)This is not a review.This is an attempt to capture my own awe in words...and to share something that is much more than a joy of reading!Reviewing Truman Capote is almost blasphemous.One has to just read him and enter the solitude where he takes us..a world where he has observed everything..The rain..the mist..the whiff...and even the skidding of wet leaves..Capote was king of observations.The reader inside us starts looking at all those things and sentiments which one might not have cared to register till now. Capote just conquers your heart and keeps it in his hands to take us to a world you know you have not seen, but you feel that you have travelled there again...you have memories calling....Capote is wistful always..in all his writings..always longing for some feeling of the past..missing something which he doesn't seem to put in a concrete shape...a loss which he cannot put his finger on..doesn't know whether it existed.And when you read Capote, you see everything he has seen and noted.

This is one of the most beautifully written books, with simplest of the characters and situations one can relate to.The book has 4 stories- all short, and each story, despite all stories being different, touch your heart. I am glad that I read it!

I'll begin by saying that I first saw the 1961 movie adaptation several years ago because of it's iconic status in the annals of cinema. I can’t say whether it was the movie, which made an impression on me on a subconscious level or whether it is the enduring imagery of the movie that still pervades popular culture. So, I was in for a bit of a surprise to discover that the book differs on various levels from its adaptation for the screen. It wasn’t very difficult for me dissociate Holly as portrayed by Audrey Hepburn in the movie because of my interpretation of her as she appears in the book. I found the tone of the book and the movie to be quite varied as well.As most literate readers will know, the book tells the story of Ms. Holly Golightly, a society girl who earns her living by escorting rich, powerful and often times men of questionable repute while living in New York during the 1940’s. An aspiring writer who is Holly’s neighbour and remains nameless throughout narrates the book. This is Ms. Golightly’s story as seen through the aforementioned writer’s perspective during his brief acquaintance with her. It appears as if the book were ahead of it’s time due in part to some of the subjects it chooses to tackle, which might have been considered taboo 60 years ago. In my opinion, this book isn’t a romance at all, but rather the desire of wanting to belong somewhere and finding one’s place in the world. This particular edition, Penguin Essentials 2011, has three other short stories with similar themes of love and belonging that are also quite good.

If you want to be shocked read the novella once. If you want to be amazed read it twice. Such a unique character is this Holly Golightly. I have never read about such a unique character. She is strong, whimsical and hopelessly romantic. Go for it for Holly Golightly.This book contains 3 other short stories. I am yet to read them.

Good book...it contains 4 stories. 1.breakfast at tiffany. 2.house of flowers. 3.diamond guitor. ... 4.christmas memory. A)if u hav already read "fountain head" & "atlas shrugged" then it would be somewhat boring reading 1st story....avg story...but beautifully presented..... B). The remaining 3 stories are outstanding&beautifully presented...it will tickle ur memories....capotes extrordinory presentation......... I think its better to purchase capotes short story collection without' tiffany'& its available in our store with almost same cost

I've heard about Breakfast at Tiffany's for years and finally got around to reading it. I'm kicking myself for waiting so long!In Breakfast at Tiffany's, we meet Holly Golightly, a young woman who just can't seem to find a place where she belongs. She can't settle. The narrator, her friend and would-be boyfriend (if she asked), tells the story of Holly's various adventures. It's not just her story, though. It's also the narrator's, and reading this story is almost like a coming-of-age story crossed with a romance crossed with something akin to slice-of-life.It's so, so rare to read a book with a narrative voice as strong as in Breakfast at Tiffany's. All the descriptions are perfect. The mood-setting is perfect. The characterization is amazing. I know some people complain about the length of the story, but think of what Breakfast at Tiffany's is really *about*: finding some place you belong, your home. That kind of story can't go on too long. It would be depressing. For those of us nearing middle age who haven't found our home, I can tell you it *is* depressing. No, the story is just right.This book also includes a story called House of Flowers. In House of Flowers, we meet the vain, albeit illiterate, Ottilie. Ottilie has been "picked up" into, say, a finer society on the basis of her looks, although her friends recognize her intelligence. When her friends talk about love, Ottilie realizes she's never felt it and seeks out a Houngan to help her. All she has to do is hold a bee. If it doesn't sting her, she's found love.Ottilie does discover love with a man named Royal Bonaparte. But there's a problem: Old Bonaparte, a nasty old woman determined to make Ottilie's life miserable, and her husband's reaction to Ottilie's solution.This is one of those stories where you leave thinking the main character has no self-respect and that maybe she took the "wise old mentor's" advice a little too seriously. After Breakfast at Tiffany's, House of Flowers was a huge let-down.In A Diamond Guitar, we meet Mr Schaeffer, one of a couple hundred prisoners in a farm where they perform labor. One day, a Cuban boy, Tico, is brought to the farm after being caught cutting up some sailors, and he has a "guitar with jewels all over it". The two become fast friends.But with his guitar, Tico brings to mind what the men have lost beyond the farm. Many of them--Mr Schaeffer included--are there basically for the rest of their lives. There's something going on with Tico, too. Finally, he convinces Mr Schaeffer to make a run for it with him.An excellent story, sad as hell. There's not much more you can say about this one. You need to read it to understand.Finally, we have A Christmas Morning, with an old woman and her 7-year-old cousin, "Buddy". Buddy is enlisted, as usual for this time of year, to help his cousin make fruitcakes. The story is almost a study in contrasts as the two go about making fruitcakes, but not so much between Buddy and his cousin, but rather between the two and the family that doesn't like them much, and between Buddy's cousin and the life she hasn't lived (and has no interest in, it seems), and where the old goes and the young goes. The two are what should be an inseparable pair, but life rolls on.A very sweet, very sad story. Reminds me a lot of my grandpa before he died. We were best friends. The family often snapped at us. I grew up and got busy with a career, and the cancer found its way to grandpa's brain. That's how the world turns, isn't it? You make an old friend when you're young, and as you go, so do they.This is an excellent collection. I will almost certainly read more from this author when I get the chance.

Llego en buen estado, la calidad del libro es buena

Einfach eine schöne Geschichte. Noch viel schöner und tiefgehender, als der FIlm. Die Charaktere sind im Buch viel ausführlicher, verständlicher und liebevoller gezeichnet. (Klar, liegt am Medium, aber Fakt ist: Das Lesen lohnt sich, auch wenn man den Film schon kennt!)

一度原文を読んでおきたかったので、手ごろな価格で良かったと思います。またページ数が本文95頁でしたので、なんとか肺活量のとどく範囲で読めたので助かりました。本書は映画にもなりましたし、映画－翻訳－原文と3つを楽しめる最適な教材だと思います。

Good book