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  • A Biography
  • By: Gerald Clarke
  • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
  • Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
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Summary

The national best-selling biography and the basis for the film Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in an Academy Award-winning turn.

One of the strongest fiction writers of his generation, Truman Capote became a literary star while still in his teens. His most phenomenal successes include Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood, and Other Voices, Other Rooms. Even while his literary achievements were setting the standards that other fiction and nonfiction writers would follow for generations, Capote descended into a spiral of self-destruction and despair.

First published in 1988 - just four years after Capote's death - Clarke paints a vivid behind-the-scenes picture of the author's life, based on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with the man himself and the people close to him. From the glittering heights of notoriety and parties with the rich and famous to his later struggles with addiction, Capote emerges as a richly multidimensional person - both brilliant and flawed.

©1988 Gerald Clarke (P)2021 Tantor

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Brilliant biography

This is one of the best and most complex biographies of human life I’ve ever read. Complex and insightful. Could not put it down

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What a Triumph

Clarke’s biography of Truman Capote captures not only the story of the man but also the nature of his time. It tells of his people as individuals and their setting in the early to late years of the twentieth century. An astounding tale of how the other half lived in the rarified heights of the rich, the titled and the talented.

Capote’s life is communicated simply so that you can draw your own conclusions about the man. Its telling lasts for 23+ hours but it never tires or is boring to the listener. Clarke’s text married to Paul Boehmer’s narration, individually brilliant but together convey the condition and capacity of their subject, encourage the listener to read the works of Capote for themself. I can’t recommend this audiobook highly enough.

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