{"product_id":"the-grass-harp-isbn-9780679745570","title":"The Grass Harp","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eIn Cold Blood \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBreakfast at Tiffany's \u003c\/i\u003ecomes the story of three endearing misfits—an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies—who take up residence in a tree house. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Remarkable. . . . Infused with a tender laughter, charming human warmth, [and] a feeling for the positive quality of life.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet on the outskirts of a small Southern town, \u003ci\u003eThe Grass Harp\u003c\/i\u003e tells the tale of three misfits who move into a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, \u003ci\u003eThe Grass Harp\u003c\/i\u003e manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the sacredness of love, “that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume also includes Capote’s \u003ci\u003eA Tree of Night and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, which the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003ecalled “unobtrusively beautiful...a superlative book.”“Remarkable. . . . Infused with a tender laughter, charming human warmth, [and] a feeling for the positive quality of life.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Grass Harp\u003c\/i\u003e charms you into sharing the author’s feeling that there is a special poetry—a spontaneity and wonder and delight—in lives untarnished by conformity and common sense.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003eTRUMAN CAPOTE was a native of New Orleans, where he was born on September 30, 1924. His first novel, \u003cb\u003eOther Voices, Other Rooms\u003c\/b\u003e, was an international literary success when first published in 1948, and accorded the author a prominent place among the writers of America's postwar generation. He sustained this position subsequently with short-story collections (\u003cb\u003eA Tree of Night\u003c\/b\u003e, among others), novels and novellas (\u003cb\u003eThe Grass Harp\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eBreakfast at Tiffany's\u003c\/b\u003e), some of the best travel writing of our time (\u003cb\u003eLocal Color\u003c\/b\u003e), profiles and reportage that appeared originally in \u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003cb\u003eThe Duke in His Domain\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Muses Are Heard\u003c\/b\u003e), a true-crime masterpiece (\u003cb\u003eIn Cold Blood\u003c\/b\u003e), several short memiors about his childhood in the South (\u003cb\u003eA Christmas Memory, The Thanksgiving Visitor, and One Christmas\u003c\/b\u003e), two plays (\u003cb\u003eThe Grass Harp\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eHouse of Flowers\u003c\/b\u003e and two films (\u003cb\u003eBeat the devil\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Innocents\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMr. Capote twice won the O.Henry Memorial Short Story Prize and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in August 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.Including The Tree of Night and Other Stories","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302891475173,"sku":"NP9780679745570","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679745570.jpg?v=1767739616","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-grass-harp-isbn-9780679745570","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}