Bibliograph

A Christmas memory ;, One Christmas ; the Thanksgiving visitor, Truman Capote

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A Christmas memory ;, One Christmas ; the Thanksgiving visitor, Truman Capote

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A Christmas memory ;

Responsibility statement

Truman Capote

Sub title

One Christmas ; the Thanksgiving visitor

Summary

Available for the first time in a single volume are the three holiday stories that Truman Capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction. Two of these childhood memoirs - "A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor"--Center on the author's early years with a family of distant relatives in rural Alabama. Both pay loving tribute to an eccentric old-maid cousin, Miss Sook Faulk, who became his best friend. In "A Christmas Memory," Miss Sook, Buddy (the narrator), and their dog, Queenie, celebrate the yuletide in a hilariously tipsy state. In the poignant reminiscence "One Christmas," six-year-old Buddy journeys to New Orleans for a reunion with his estranged father that shatters many illusions. And in "The Thanksgiving Visitor," Miss Sook invites the school bully, Odd Henderson - called by Buddy "the meanest human creature in my experience" - to Thanksgiving dinner

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