Truman Capote Enfant Terrible

Robert Emmet Long is a recognized critic of American and British literature, and a commentator on the performing arts. He is author or editor of some 30 books and he has contributed over 400 articles to many journals and magazines, including The Nation, Commonweal, and Saturday Review.

• Introduction; 1 The Early Years to Capote's Departure for Europe 1949; 2 Nine High School Stories ("Hilda," "If I Forget You," "Lucy," "Saturday Night," "Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child," "Swamp Terror," "The Moth in the Flame," "Miss Belle Rankin," "Louise"); The Tree of Night and Other Stories; Summer Crossing; 3 Other Voices, Other Rooms; 4 Travels Including Local Color, Short Fiction, and Reportage; 5 The Grass Harp--Novel and Play; 6 The Films: Beat the Devil and Indiscretions of an American Housewife; 7 Observations - with Photographs by Richard Avedon; 8 In Cold Blood; 9 The Late Years in the Public Eye; 10 Answered Prayers; Works; Works Consulted; Index.

"Truman Capote's offbeat heroine Holly Golightly tells us that she'd "rather have cancer than a dishonest heart." If her creator was theatrical and flamboyant, he was also honest, courageous, uncompromising in his fictions, vignettes, sketches, essays. Robert Emmet Long honors his subject by way of a masterful ability to cut through to the generative poetic centers of the work. Truman Capote: Enfant Terrible is a penetrating and seamless study that illuminates Capote's texts even while dramatizing his presence." - William Heyen, author of Shoah Train: Poems, National Book Award Finalist