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Article: Truman Capote: In Cold Print
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 29, 1988
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CAPOTE
A Biography By Gerald Clarke
Simon and Schuster. 631 pp. $22.95
TRUMAN CAPOTE liked to say he was "as tall as a shotgun and as
noisy." He came onto the literary scene in 1945 at the age of 21
loudly proclaiming his genius. His talent was as much for
self-promotion as for literary style. Capote had a baby face, a baby
voice and a baby's habit of wanting everything all the time. Fame
was at the top of his agenda. His aim was immortality, he wrote in
an early teenage poem, "to be somebody and be remembered." Capote's
fame, when he achieved it, was the spell that drew the world close
and kept it from abandoning him as faithlessly as his parents had.
"All our acts are acts of fear," ...
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