{"product_id":"music-for-chameleons-9780679745662","title":"Music for Chameleons","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \"An incomparable stylist and entertainer . . . clean and cool . . . [with a] superb, near-perfect pitch with dialogue.\"\u003ci\u003e --The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTruman Capote was a native of New Orleans, where he was born on September 30, 1924. His first novel, \u003cb\u003eOther Voices, Other Rooms\u003c\/b\u003e, was an international literary success when first published in 1948, and accorded the author a prominent place among the writers of America's postwar generation. He sustained this position subsequently with short-story collections (\u003cb\u003eA Tree of Night\u003c\/b\u003e, among others), novels and novellas (\u003cb\u003eThe Grass Harp\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eBreakfast at Tiffany's\u003c\/b\u003e), some of the best travel writing of our time (\u003cb\u003eLocal Color\u003c\/b\u003e), profiles and reportage that appeared originally in \u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003cb\u003eThe Duke in His Domain\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Muses Are Heard\u003c\/b\u003e), a true-crime masterpiece (\u003cb\u003eIn Cold Blood\u003c\/b\u003e), several short memiors about his childhood in the South (\u003cb\u003eA Christmas Memory, The Thanksgiving Visitor, and One Christmas\u003c\/b\u003e), two plays (\u003cb\u003eThe Grass Harp\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eHouse of Flowers\u003c\/b\u003e and two films (\u003cb\u003eBeat the devil\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Innocents\u003c\/b\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMr. Capote twice won the O.Henry Memorial Short Story Prize and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in August 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615275585810,"sku":"9780679745662","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7b147535-51ea-4430-9e85-d0173bbc9aac.jpg?v=1732480506","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/music-for-chameleons-9780679745662","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}