Christmas Memory

Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote, the author of Breakfast at Tiffany\'s,are a captivating tribute to the Christmas season\'We set about choosing a tree. \"It should be,\" muses my friend, \"twice as tall as a boy. So a boy can\'t steal the star.\"\'Selected from across Truman Capote\'s writing life, these Christmas stories range from nostalgic, semi-autobiographical portraits of childhood to more unsettling tales of darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South of Capote\'s youth, a young boy, Buddy, and his beloved maiden \'aunt\' Sook forage for pecans and whiskey to bake into fruitcakes, make kites - too broke to buy gifts - and rise before dawn to prepare feasts for a ragged assembly of guests; while in other stories, a lonely woman has a troubling encounter in wintry New York and an unlikely festive miracle, of sorts, occurs at a local drugstore.Brimming with feeling, these sparkling tales convey both the wonder and the chill of Christmas time. Σελίδες: 112, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm