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Article: Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career.
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- December 23, 1997
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If the latest biography of Truman Capote downplays the legendary author's literary contributions and focuses on his life among the rich and famous, it's by design: Author George Plimpton knows that, like Capote himself, we want dessert first. Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career constructs a careful portrait of the child genius, the author of the best-sellers Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood, and the sad, drunken caricature that Capote became. But it soars when its famous cast of characters evoke the occasionally terrible man they all loathed and admired and the often awful things he did ...