Alison's review
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Alison's review
rating:
bookshelves: classics, fivestars, southernwriters
recommended for: manhattanites, writers, searchers
status: Read in November, 2007
rating:
bookshelves: classics, fivestars, southernwriters
recommended for: manhattanites, writers, searchers
status: Read in November, 2007
"No fooling the fat woman almost had me. She was yakking up a storm....The mockery of it! But it's all that's ahead for us, my friend: this comedienne waiting to give you the old razz. Now do you see why I went crazy and broke everything?"
I read this novella probably fifteen years after watching the movie. The film version is important because it allowed Audrey Hepburn to become Holly Golightly--a lost, free-wheeling young Manhattan socialite with a mysterious past. She got to be charming, quirky, gorgeous, and most importantly, well-dressed. The true Holly, the character the way she was meant to be, is quite a different person.
The real Holly of Capote's imagination (or experience) is a little more brazen, more like a call-girl who uses foul language, is politically incorrect, and becomes pregnant with a love-child (conceived less out of love and more out of Holly's desire to be taken care of by someone wealthy). She drinks more, speaks of shoplifting, and &qu...more
I read this novella probably fifteen years after watching the movie. The film version is important because it allowed Audrey Hepburn to become Holly Golightly--a lost, free-wheeling young Manhattan socialite with a mysterious past. She got to be charming, quirky, gorgeous, and most importantly, well-dressed. The true Holly, the character the way she was meant to be, is quite a different person.
The real Holly of Capote's imagination (or experience) is a little more brazen, more like a call-girl who uses foul language, is politically incorrect, and becomes pregnant with a love-child (conceived less out of love and more out of Holly's desire to be taken care of by someone wealthy). She drinks more, speaks of shoplifting, and &qu...more
