Capote

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'How Capote went from an enchanter - the startlingly fresh voice of his first növel Other Voices, Other Rooms - to someone you wanted to hold away from you with a pair of tongs is an amazing story, as disturbing as anything Capote ever wrote. In this work of prodigious research gracefully presented, Mr Clarké, who had his subject's confidence during the last years, gives Capote what the writer himself, in a last grand, gutsy gesture, declared he wanted: a book in which nothing, nothing at all, was left out. Mr Clarké, a former senior writer at Time magaziné, makes us take a longer look at Capote than I, for one, ever thought I wanted to take, and the result is mesmerizing...' New York Times Book Review 'It was a terrifying life to live, but an almost perfect one to contemplate. Undersized, effeminate, homosexual, bookish...immensely talented, flagrantly malicious, and bearing a delicate gamin beauty, he entranced the literary world of the late forties with a knowing glee that seemed... Tovább

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'How Capote went from an enchanter - the startlingly fresh voice of his first növel Other Voices, Other Rooms - to someone you wanted to hold away from you with a pair of tongs is an amazing story, as disturbing as anything Capote ever wrote. In this work of prodigious research gracefully presented, Mr Clarké, who had his subject's confidence during the last years, gives Capote what the writer himself, in a last grand, gutsy gesture, declared he wanted: a book in which nothing, nothing at all, was left out. Mr Clarké, a former senior writer at Time magaziné, makes us take a longer look at Capote than I, for one, ever thought I wanted to take, and the result is mesmerizing...' New York Times Book Review 'It was a terrifying life to live, but an almost perfect one to contemplate. Undersized, effeminate, homosexual, bookish...immensely talented, flagrantly malicious, and bearing a delicate gamin beauty, he entranced the literary world of the late forties with a knowing glee that seemed invulnerable. But the charmed performance could not last forever... Capote comes close to greatness; it must be the finest biography this shattered life will ever receive' The Listener 'A masterpiece of biography' Blitz 'Entertaining, dramatic, sympathetic, detailed Southern Gothic threaded with Manhattan chic' Punch 'Clarke's massive and authoritative book provides the best account of his life we are likely to get' Spectator Vissza