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Un Noël ; L'invité d'un jour / One Christmas ; The Thanksgiving visitor
English and French texts on facing pages.
Buddy a six ans. Pour lui, Noël est un moment magique qu'il aime partager avec la douce et vieille Miss Sook, sa cousine. Mais cette année, le petit garçon doit passer les fêtes de fin d'année chez son père qu'il connaît peu et qui l'intimide. Pour Buddy, Noël ne sera jamais plus comme avant...
Buddy a six ans. Pour lui, Noël est un moment magique qu'il aime partager avec la douce et vieille Miss Sook, sa cousine. Mais cette année, le petit garçon doit passer les fêtes de fin d'année chez son père qu'il connaît peu et qui l'intimide. Pour Buddy, Noël ne sera jamais plus comme avant...
160 pages, Paperback
Published October 17, 1991
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Truman Capote
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Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.
He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live with his mother and her new husband, Joseph Capote, a Cuban-born businessman. Mr. Capote adopted Truman, legally changing his last name to Capote and enrolling him in private school. After graduating from high school in 1942, Truman Capote began his regular job as a copy boy at The New Yorker. During this time, he also began his career as a writer, publishing many short stories which introduced him into a circle of literary critics. His first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, published in 1948, stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for nine weeks and became controversial because of the photograph of Capote used to promote the novel, posing seductively and gazing into the camera.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Capote remained prolific producing both fiction and non-fiction. His masterpiece, In Cold Blood, a story about the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, was published in 1966 in book form by Random House, became a worldwide success and brought Capote much praise from the literary community. After this success he published rarely and suffered from alcohol addiction. He died in 1984 at age 59.
Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.
He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live with his mother and her new husband, Joseph Capote, a Cuban-born businessman. Mr. Capote adopted Truman, legally changing his last name to Capote and enrolling him in private school. After graduating from high school in 1942, Truman Capote began his regular job as a copy boy at The New Yorker. During this time, he also began his career as a writer, publishing many short stories which introduced him into a circle of literary critics. His first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, published in 1948, stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for nine weeks and became controversial because of the photograph of Capote used to promote the novel, posing seductively and gazing into the camera.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Capote remained prolific producing both fiction and non-fiction. His masterpiece, In Cold Blood, a story about the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, was published in 1966 in book form by Random House, became a worldwide success and brought Capote much praise from the literary community. After this success he published rarely and suffered from alcohol addiction. He died in 1984 at age 59.
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September 7, 2015
Reading this book was a good way to get back into French mode, although the translation is obviously outdated. And since I've never actually read anything by Capote before, now I feel the need to read something in the original English to better appreciate his style.
October 24, 2007
"There is a Santa Claus, because what he does is the Lord's will and whatever is the Lord's will is the truth!"
This is a sweet, short, story about Capote's Christmas when he was six. He was snatched from the safety of his rural Alabama residence with his aunts & cousins to spend Christmas with his estranged father in New Orleans. Nothing is as expected.
This is a sweet, short, story about Capote's Christmas when he was six. He was snatched from the safety of his rural Alabama residence with his aunts & cousins to spend Christmas with his estranged father in New Orleans. Nothing is as expected.
October 25, 2011
Ummmm ! .... What to say ? I'll start with "One Christmas" I just found in this short novel an egocentric man telling between a group of his admirers his childhood memories, just anecdotic .... for me without any kind of interest ...
The Thanksgiving Visitor brought me some more interest but it's always the same .... Truman Capote "Buddy" speaking about himself ....
The Thanksgiving Visitor brought me some more interest but it's always the same .... Truman Capote "Buddy" speaking about himself ....
January 11, 2024
J’aime bcp trop les livres qui illustrent des enfants à la Schimt car malgré le caractère enfantin du texte ou même du livre ici ( d’ailleurs c’est dommage de l’avoir lu après Noël lol), la moral et le fond sont toujours profonds. Btw les parents séparés sont vraiment grv ils leurs faudrait un mode d’emploi pour ne pas être con sayez ohhh
Vive les enfants !
Vive les enfants !
December 23, 2022
2/5
Une nouvelle simple et très courte (trop ?) pour pouvoir vraiment apprécier la magie des fêtes ou le talent de Truman Capote.
Une nouvelle simple et très courte (trop ?) pour pouvoir vraiment apprécier la magie des fêtes ou le talent de Truman Capote.
November 8, 2023
Beautiful
December 25, 2023
Nouvelles autobiographiques bien plaisantes à lire.
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