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Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories

Pages
194
Published
1958
Language
English

Synopsis

In the New York of the early 1940s, an unnamed young writer becomes fascinated by his downstairs neighbor, Holly Golightly — a luminous, mercurial young woman who lives on café society, wealthy admirers and her own carefully curated mystery. Holly has no fixed address in her heart, keeps a business card that reads "traveling," and dreams of a place that makes her feel the way Tiffany's does: where nothing very bad could happen.

As the narrator is drawn deeper into her orbit, glimpses of the real girl behind the glamour emerge — her rural past, her tenderness, her terror of being caged — until circumstances force a reckoning that reveals both her fragility and her fierce refusal to be owned.

Truman Capote's beloved 1958 novella is a bittersweet, sharply observed portrait of reinvention, longing and the loneliness beneath the sparkle, rendered in some of the most graceful prose in American fiction.

About the author

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Truman Capote

Truman Capote was an American writer, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "nonfiction novel".

Characters

Holly GolightlyProtagonist

A magnetic, self-invented young socialite adrift in wartime New York, dreaming of a place where she belongs.

Unnamed male narratorSupporting
Doc GolightlySupporting
Joe BellSupporting
I.Y. YunioshiSupporting
All characters in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories
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