Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn&s sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name Breakfast at Tiffany&s is Truman Capote&s timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly published in Penguin Modern Classics It&s New York in the 1940s where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany&s & nice girls don&t except of course for Holly Golightly glittering socialite traveller generally upwards sometimes sideways & once in a while
- down Pursued by to Salvatore & Sally& Tomato the Mafia sugar-daddy doing life in Sing Sing & & Rusty& Trawler the blue-chinned cuff-shooting millionaire man about women about town Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair & turned-up nose a heart-breaker a perplexer a traveller a tease She is irrepressibly &top banana in the shock deparment& & one of the shining flowers of American fiction This edition also contains three stories & House of Flowers& &A Diamond Guitar& & &A Christmas Memory& Truman Capote (1924-84) was born in New Orleans He left school when he was fifteen & subsequently worked for The New Yorker which provided his first
- & last
- regular job He wrote both fiction & non-fiction
- short stories novels & novellas travel writing profiles reportage memoirs plays & films; his other works include In Cold Blood (1965) Music for Chameleons (1980) & Answered Prayers (1986) all of which are published in Penguin Modern Classics If you enjoyed Breakfast at Tiffany&s you might like Capote&s In Cold Blood also available in Penguin Modern Classics & One of the twentieth century&s most gorgeously romantic fictions& Daily Telegraph& The most perfect writer of my generation I would not have changed two words of Breakfast at Tiffany&s& Norman Mailer