| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780375837890 | | Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers | | Publish Date: 10/10/2006 | | Buy.com Sku: 202536676 | | Item#: RCGR96 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 8664 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.5H x 7.5L x 0.5T | | Pages: 48 |
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| | | First published in 1956, this autobiographical recollection of Truman Capote's rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic. Delicately illustrated, this 50th anniversary edition features an audio CD narrated by actress Celeste Holm. Full color.
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Truman Capote's autobiographical story of a Christmas tradition from his early childhood in rural Alabama has been reprinted for a 30th anniversary edition. When ?fruitcake weather' arrives, seven-year-old Buddy and Miss Sook, one of the elderly cousins he lives with, the two gather ingredients to make these pungent cakes for family and friends. With lovely watercolor illustrations and a CD of the story read aloud.
| Author Bio| Truman Capote | | Truman Capote, born to a bumbling loser and his chronically unfaithful wife, was originally called Truman Streckfus Persons. Young Truman was raised mostly by his mother's relatives in Alabama, until his mother's divorce and remarriage in 1931 provided him with a more stable family life (and a more melodious name). The family moved to Greenwich, Connecticut and then New York City, and Capote quickly made the transition from Southern country bumpkin to East Coast sophisticate. At 18, he was hired as a copy boy at The New Yorker and eventually became not only a successful writer but one of the first to declare his homosexuality openly. Renowned for his fabulous parties, celebrity friends, and extravagant lifestyle, Capote died from a combination of alcohol, drugs, and exhaustion. |
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