Breakfast at Tiffany's

from ctpress

"I never get used to anything - anybody that does, they might as well be dead" A quote from Holly Golightly - this short novel tells her story - or the narrators brief "friendship" with her during the war in the 1940's Manhattan. He lives in the same apartment building as Holly - he's deeply fasc...

from evangelista

I had never read Breakfast at Tiffany's or anything else by Truman Capote. Lovely, sad, and in many ways, quite a bit different than the movie. The novella, in part, details a struggle between a desire for freedom and a desire for a place to belong. Holly Golightly is a self-defined traveler and ...

from richardderus

The Book Report: Miss Holiday Golightly, Traveling, meets a nameless man in her WWII-era brownstone, ignores and then abuses him, and never truly sees him (or anyone else, unless she has her prescription sunglasses on) as she pursues her life of errrmmm uhhh enthusiastic debauchery around the man...

from EmScape

What a charming and eccentric character Holly Golightly is! Capote manages to cram a decent amount of her history and characterization in such a slim novella. It's breathtaking, sucking you in and not letting go until the last word. Indeed, all the short stories in this collection breathe with th...

from TheAmpersand

It's no longer shameful to admit that you find a three-minute pop song to be profoundly moving, that you fell in love with a movie character, or even that you cried when a character died in a video game, even though these mediums still may not constitute what most people think of as high art. Tru...