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When Breakfast at Tiffany's was first
published in 1958, Time magazine de-
scribed its heroine, Holly Golightly,
as "the hottest kitten ever to hit the
typewriter keys of Truman Capote.
She's a cross between a grown-up
Lolita and a teen-age Auntie Mame
alone and a little afraid in a lot of
beds she never made." Of all his
characters, Capote later said, Holly
was his favorite, and it is easy to see
why. This wacky hillbilly-turned-
playgirl who lives in a Manhattan
brownstone shares not only his phi-
losophy of freedom and acceptance
of human irregularities but also
his fears and anxieties—"the mean
reds" she calls them. For her the
cure is to jump into a taxi and head
for Tiffany's; nothing bad could
happen, she says, amid "that lovely
smell of silver and alligator wal-
lets/' and her dream is to have
breakfast in that soothing setting.
"Holly Golightly is outre, funny,
touching—and real," remarked The
Atlantic. This volume also includes
three of...
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Fülszöveg
When Breakfast at Tiffany's was first
published in 1958, Time magazine de-
scribed its heroine, Holly Golightly,
as "the hottest kitten ever to hit the
typewriter keys of Truman Capote.
She's a cross between a grown-up
Lolita and a teen-age Auntie Mame
alone and a little afraid in a lot of
beds she never made." Of all his
characters, Capote later said, Holly
was his favorite, and it is easy to see
why. This wacky hillbilly-turned-
playgirl who lives in a Manhattan
brownstone shares not only his phi-
losophy of freedom and acceptance
of human irregularities but also
his fears and anxieties—"the mean
reds" she calls them. For her the
cure is to jump into a taxi and head
for Tiffany's; nothing bad could
happen, she says, amid "that lovely
smell of silver and alligator wal-
lets/' and her dream is to have
breakfast in that soothing setting.
"Holly Golightly is outre, funny,
touching—and real," remarked The
Atlantic. This volume also includes
three of Capote's best-known short
stories: "House of Flowers," "A Dia-
mond Guitar," and "A Christmas
Memory," which the Saturday Review
called "one of the most moving
stories in the language."
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