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      Music for Chameleons

      by Truman Capote
      Published
      Jun 1981
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      268
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      In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction.

      "An incomparable stylist and entertainer . . . clean and cool . . . [with a] superb, near-perfect pitch with dialogue." —The New York Times Book Review

      Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise; and a proper Connecticut householder with a ruinous obsession for a twelve-year-old he has never met. And we meet Capote himself, who, whether he is smoking with his cleaning lady or trading sexual gossip with Marilyn Monroe, remains one of the most elegant, malicious, yet compassionate writers to train his eye on the social fauna of his time.

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      Jun 1981 Signet ISBN13 9780451161802 ISBN10 0451161807
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      Apr 1994 Vintage ISBN13 9780679745662 ISBN10 0679745661
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      Jul 1985 Random House ISBN13 9780394545134 ISBN10 0394545133
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