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| Title | : | Music for Chameleons |
| Author | : | Truman Capote |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 262 pages |
| Published | : | 2001 by Penguin (first published 1980) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Classics. Writing. Essays. Literature. American. 20th Century |
Truman Capote
Paperback | Pages: 262 pages Rating: 4.07 | 8453 Users | 511 Reviews
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At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a ‘nonfiction novel’ based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer.Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also in this volume are six short stories and seven ‘conversational portraits’ including a touching one of Marilyn Monroe, the ‘beautiful child’ and a hilarious one of a dope-smoking cleaning lady doing her rounds in New York.Itemize Books Conducive To Music for Chameleons
| Original Title: | Music for Chameleons |
| ISBN: | 0141184612 (ISBN13: 9780141184616) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.07 From 8453 Users | 511 ReviewsJudge Based On Books Music for Chameleons
Capote is a terrific writer, and helped develop the 'nonfiction novel' style with In Cold Blood. While this book isn't as good as ICB, it is an easy read, being a collection of short memories and 'conversational portraits'. This style of recounting interactions and conversations with actual people got him in trouble with some of his NYC high-s0ciety pals. It also has an interesting and brief Intro in which he talks about the evolution of his writing style.This book is very heterogeneous and for those who do not know Truman Capote, this one would allow them to have an overview of the writing of the author. This book brings together as much short novels as the short novel Custom Coffin and portraits and conversations that the author had with famous characters (as here, Marilyn Monroe) who, under the pen of Capote, suddenly come back to life before our eyes. In the short stories gathered here, the author has fun taking the reader to the four corners
I had heared of Truman Capote as a creator of what is called "non-fiction novel". Though not sure about what it meant, I was absorbed by the idea this expression suggested. So I read Music for Chameleons and boy! That was something!The book is conducted in three parts: Music for Chameleons, Handcarved Coffins, and Conversational Portraits. The first is a set of six "non-fiction" short stories, which are, to say, perfect stories from which the "tale" is taken. The second part is a short novel,
In this collection of fiction and non-fiction from late in Capote's life, he shows us that while his fiction may be depleting, his non-fiction is as sharp as ever. The stories at the beginning of the book didn't do anything for me. They were all very middling and detracted from this work in my opinion. "Handcarved Coffins" is a work in the style In Cold Blood but the recent discovery that most of it was probably made up does make it hard to suspend disbelief. However, the real jewel in this
There is no doubt that Capote is a fantastic writer. His words flow beautifully and effortlessly. Whatever anecdote he chooses to relate becomes alive on the page and in the reader's mind. Yet, for there is a "yet", this ragtag collection of writings fails to be as satisfying as it should be. It is a mostly random collection of vignettes, little scraps of stories that don't quite seem to be going anywhere. As mentioned, that does not mean that the reading of them is not enjoyable and sometimes
I think I just discovered my new favorite book.
A book of extraordinary grace, incisiveness and honesty which further bolsters my impression that Capote remains one of the most important, original and underestimated writers of his era. Fuck his artificial image as a catty, trivial, morbid starfucker, and study the work: dark, devastating, morally decent work shot through with his actual character, the shadows of an encroaching darkness creeping across the sun-dappled idyll of his New Orleans childhood. Even fans tend to lean on a popular
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