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Author Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.

Title Portraits and observations : the essays of Truman Capote.

Imprint New York : Random House, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  814.54 C173p 2007    ---  Axe Inventory 2024
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  814.54 Cap    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 518 p. ; 25 cm.
Note Includes index.
Contents New Orleans -- New York -- Brooklyn -- Hollywood -- Haiti -- To Europe -- Ischia -- Tangier -- A ride through Spain -- Fontana Vecchia -- Style: and the Japanese -- The muses are heard -- The Duke in his domain -- From Observations: Richard Avedon, John Huston, Charlie Chaplin, A gathering of swans, Pablo Picasso, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Cocteau and Andre Gide, Mae West, Louis Armstrong, Humphrey Bogart, Ezra Pound, Somerset Maugham, Isak Dinesen -- A house on the heights -- Lola -- Jane Bowles -- Extreme magic -- Ghosts in sunlight: The filming of In cold blood -- Greek paragraphs -- A voice from a cloud -- Cecil Beaton -- The white rose -- Self-portrait -- Preface to The dogs bark -- Elizabeth Taylor -- Music for chameleons -- Then it all came down -- Handcarved coffins -- A day's work -- Dazzle -- Hidden gardens -- Hello, stranger -- Derring-do -- Nocturnal turnings -- A beautiful child -- Mr. Jones -- A lamp in a window -- Hospitality -- Preface to Music for chameleons -- Remembering Tennessee -- Remembering Willa Cather.
Subject Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.
American essays -- 20th century.
Added Title Essays of Truman Capote
ISBN 1400066611 (alk. paper)
9781400066612 (alk. paper)
Standard No. IG# 9781400066612
NZ1 11532629
AU@ 000042186706
NLGGC 30952590X

 
    
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