Breakfast at Tiffany's & Other Voices Other Rooms

<b>From the Modern Library&#146;s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote&#151;also available are <i>In Cold Blood Portraits and Observations </i>and <i>The Complete Stories</i></b><br><br>Together in one volume here are a pair of literary touchstones from Truman Capote&#146;s extraordinary early career: the transcendently popular novella <i>Breakfast at Tiffany&#146;s </i>and <i>Other Voices Other Rooms </i>the debut novel he published as a twenty-three-year-old prodigy.<br> &#160;<br> Of all his characters Capote once said Holly Golightly was his favorite. The hillbilly-turned-Manhattanite at the center of <i>Breakfast at Tiffany&#146;s</i> shares not only the author&#146;s philosophy of freedom but also his fears and anxieties. For Holly the cure is to jump into a taxi and head for Tiffany&#146;s; nothing bad could happen she believes amid &#147;that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets.&#148;<br> &#160;<br> <i>Other Voices Other Rooms</i> begins as thirteen-year-old Joel Knox after losing his mother is sent from New Orleans to rural Alabama to live with his estranged father&#151;who is nowhere to be found. Instead Joel meets his eccentric family and finds a kindred spirit in a defiant little girl. Despite its themes of waylaid hopes and lost innocence this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel revels in small pleasures and the colorful language of its time and place.