Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

This collection gathers one novella and three short stories. The title piece follows a young narrator and his charming, elusive neighbour in wartime New York, a woman who lives by her wits and avoids being tied down. The other stories turn to memory, childhood and quiet longing, including a tender portrait of an elderly cousin and a boy at Christmas in the rural South. Together they show Capote's clear, graceful prose and his gift for fragile, unforgettable characters.