Truman Capote
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 21
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Overview: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959,...
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Available for the first time in a single volume are the three holiday stories that Truman Capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction. Two of these childhood memoirs - "A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor"--Center on the author's early years with a family of distant relatives in rural Alabama. Both pay loving tribute to an eccentric old-maid cousin, Miss Sook Faulk, who became his best friend. In "A Christmas Memory,"...
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Publisher
Vintage International, Vintage Books, a division of Random house, Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
The title story chronicles the poignancy, wit, and naïveté of Holly Golightly, an amoral playgirl living in New York City. The volume also includes three of Capote's best known short stories.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
When a prosperous and respected Kansas farmer, his wife and his two teenage children are brutally slaughtered, Detective Alvin Dewey heads up the case. With no clues, no apparent motives, and no suspects, viewers enter a dark work of excitement penetrating the inner workings of the criminal minds involved. Discover the dramatic conclusion of one of America's most haunting stories in this four part mini-series that is drenched in mystery and massacre!...
12) In cold blood
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A hard hitting docu-drama about two ex-cons who ruthlessly murder a Kansas family in 1959 in order to steal their non-existent stash of money.
14) Beat the devil
Publisher
Front Row Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
An offbeat tale of adventure and suspense involving the passengers on a steamer who attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a parcel of land believed believed to be rich with uranium deposits.
Publisher
Genius Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A little boy is abandoned by his parents and raised by some older unmarried cousins, where he develops a close bond with one of the ladies. When he is urged to move on with his life by one of them, he never forgets the memories of his favorite friend.
16) One Christmas
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Eight-year-old Buddy finds himself in New Orleans spending the holidays with his estranged father. Buddy dreams of finding Santa, a snow-covered New Orleans and a new relationship with his father.
18) The grass harp
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Following the death of his parents, teenaged Collin Fenwick is sent to live with his father's cousins in a small Southern town in the 1930s.
Series
Criterion collection volume 202
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
An American housewife (Jennifer Jones) vacationing in Italy reluctantly decides to put an end to her brief affair with an Italian academic (Montgomery Clift). She flees to Rome's Stazione Termini, where she bids him farewell, but he begs her to stay. The film's plot is simple; its production was not. The troubled collaboration between director Vittorio De Sica and producer David O. Selznick resulted in two cuts of the same film. De Sica's version,...
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Description
Billy Bob is a thirteen-year-old boy growing up in a small Alabama town in 1947. Billy Bob's best friend is Preacher Star, who has a pronounced mischievous streak. When Lily Jane moves into town with her mother, a strange woman who never speaks, both Billy Bob and Preacher are entranced. Billy Bob and Preacher become rivals for Lily Jane's affections. As Billy Bob struggles with first love, he also has to deal with his mother's budding romance with...