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A review by kerrianne
A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote
5.0
This is my very first introduction to Capote*, and I honestly think this might be one of the best introductions to any writer I likely should have read ages ago but just hadn't yet. (Thanks, Leah!)
The first short story in this trifecta of holiday-themed stories ("A Christmas Memory") is so beautiful it made me cry. It somehow reminded me of both of my grandmothers—who are two exceptionally different women—while also reminding me of all my favorite parts of the time I've spent in the South.
I'm going to be thinking about this line for a long time: "As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes."
*I of course knew Truman Capote existed, and was a well-known writer (I know the premise of In True Blood, vaguely), but...that's pretty much where my Capote knowledge began and ended before this book. I had no idea he was once besties with Harper Lee, wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's, and was apparently fired from The New Yorker for offending Robert Frost—a tidbit of random trivia that fills me with tangible delight.
[Five stars for a trifecta of pocket-sized stories I'm soon going to own, and that I'm looking forward to adding to my annual December (re-)reading list.]
The first short story in this trifecta of holiday-themed stories ("A Christmas Memory") is so beautiful it made me cry. It somehow reminded me of both of my grandmothers—who are two exceptionally different women—while also reminding me of all my favorite parts of the time I've spent in the South.
I'm going to be thinking about this line for a long time: "As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes."
*I of course knew Truman Capote existed, and was a well-known writer (I know the premise of In True Blood, vaguely), but...that's pretty much where my Capote knowledge began and ended before this book. I had no idea he was once besties with Harper Lee, wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's, and was apparently fired from The New Yorker for offending Robert Frost—a tidbit of random trivia that fills me with tangible delight.
[Five stars for a trifecta of pocket-sized stories I'm soon going to own, and that I'm looking forward to adding to my annual December (re-)reading list.]