{"product_id":"portraits-and-observations-the-essays-of-truman-capote-isbn-9780812978919","title":"Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote","description":"\u003cb\u003eA stunning collection of essays from literary titan Truman Capote, author of \u003ci\u003eIn Cold Blood \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBreakfast at Tiffany’s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A wonderful volume . . . Nearly every page can be read with real pleasure. . . . No matter what his subject, [Capote’s] canny, careful art gives it warm and breathing life.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World \u003c\/i\u003e(Best Books of the Year)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A must-have treasure for Capote fans . . . These are delicious, dramatic, and tender nonfiction portraits and tales.”—NPR’s \u003ci\u003eMorning Edition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps no twentieth-century writer was so observant and graceful a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. \u003ci\u003ePortraits and Observations\u003c\/i\u003e is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers. Included are such masterpieces of narrative nonfiction as “The Muses Are Heard” and the short nonfiction novel “Handcarved Coffins,” as well as many long-out-of-print essays, including portraits of Mae West, Humphrey Bogart, and Marilyn Monroe. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom his travel sketches of Brooklyn, New Orleans, and Hollywood, written when he was twenty-two, to the author’s last written words, “Remembering Willa Cather,” composed the day before his death in 1984, \u003ci\u003ePortraits and Observations\u003c\/i\u003e puts on display the full spectrum of Truman Capote’s brilliance. Certainly Capote was, as Somerset Maugham famously called him, “a stylist of the first quality.” But as the pieces gathered here remind us, he was also an artist of remarkable substance.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302759977189,"sku":"NP9780812978919","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780812978919.jpg?v=1767734987","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/portraits-and-observations-the-essays-of-truman-capote-isbn-9780812978919","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}