Capote
A Biography
Book - 1988
From instant celebrity at age 23 to overweight, alcoholic loner in his 50s, Truman Capote streaked across the middle of this century on a comet of genius, self-destruction, and fame. Drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with Capote and with nearly everyone who knew him, and with exclusive access to personal papers, Gerald Clarke has written the definitive biography of an incomparable man and his time. "Extraordinary . . . Rich in intelligence and compassion . . . One can't put the book down. Few literary biographies in recent memory have been so vivid and absorbing." -- Bruce Bawer, The Wall Street Journal
Publisher:
New York ; Toronto : Simon & Schuster, c1988.
ISBN:
9780671228118
0671228110
9780786716616
0786716614
0671228110
9780786716616
0786716614
Characteristics:
631 pages : illustrations, portraits


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Add a CommentClarke's frequently dark yet poignant portrait humanizes the weirdly mannered, baby-voiced media creature I used to watch with bemusement on the Dick Cavett and Johnny Carson chat shows of the seventies. Recommended.