Breakfast at Tiffany's [Paperback]

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.

This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory,” which theSaturday Reviewcalled “one of the most moving stories in our language.” It is a tale of two innocents—a small boy and the old woman who is his best friend—whose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.

“Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation. He writes the best sentences word for word, rhythm upon rhythm.”—Norman MailerTruman Capote (1924-84) rose to international prominence in 1948 with the publication of his debut novel,Other Voices, Other Rooms. His other works of fiction includeBreakfast at Tiffany's,A Tree of Night,The Grass Harp,andSummer Crossing, the author's long-lost first novel, which was rediscovered in 2004 and published by Random House in 2005. He is also the author ofPortraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote. His nonfiction novelIn Cold Bloodis widely considered one of the greatest books of the twentieth century.The discussion questions and other material that are intended to enhance your group’s conversation aboutBreakfast at Tiffany’s,Truman Capote’s brilliant novella about two friends living in a Manhattan apartment building during World War II, and the three classic short stories also included in the volume.

A.Breakfast at Tiffany’s

1. The story begins when the bartender Joe Bell and the narrator talk about Mr. Yunioshi’s report that Holly Gló,