A Christmas Memory

Truman Capote's Christmas stories are a tribute to the season, featuring nostalgic portraits of childhood and unsettling tales of darkness. They convey the wonder and chill of Christmas time, including a young boy and his aunt baking fruitcakes, a lonely woman having a troubling encounter, and an unlikely festive miracle at a local drugstore.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 112 pages
Publication date: 27 October 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

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.

Weight: 200g
Dimension: 198 x 129 x 6 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241474426