Truman Capote
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viii, 396 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Overview: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15,...
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vii, 107 pages ; 19 cm
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English
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Available for the first time in a single volume are the three holiday stories that Truman Capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction. Two of these childhood memoirs - "A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor" - center on the author's early years with a family of distant relatives in rural Alabama. Both pay loving tribute to an eccentric old-maid cousin, Miss Sook Faulk, who became his best friend. In "A Christmas Memory,"...
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xxii, 177 pages ; 19 cm
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English
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"In a small Southern town, a teenage girl anxiously waits for her date to arrive. A little boy meets his dream dog in Central Park. A woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lover's eyes. Best friends discuss the theoretical murder of husbands. In these never-before-published stories, written by Truman Capote when he was in his teens and twenties, Capote-the-Writer is already recognizable. His prose: witty, poignant, and crystal-clear....
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1 videodisc (approximately 179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When a prosperous and respected Kansas farmer, his wife, and his two teenage children are brutally slaughtered, Detective Alvin Dewey heads up the case. With no clues, no apparent motives, and no suspects, viewers enter a dark work of excitement penetrating the inner workings of the criminal minds involved. Discover the dramatic conclusion of one of America's most haunting stories in this four part mini-series that is drenched in mystery and massacre....
14) The Capote tapes
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote's greatest masterpiece, an epic novel of New York City's glittering jet-set society, following his smashing success with Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. Instead, it sparked his downfall. Through access to never-before-heard audio archives and interviews with Capote's friends and enemies, including Dick Cavett, Lauren Bacall, Norman Mailer, and André Leon Talley, this documentary reveals the...
15) Beat the devil
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black &white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Adventure story set aboard a steamer bound for Africa. The passengers attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a piece of land they think has uranium on it.