The world would be a different place if it wasn’t for Holly Golightly, Truman Capote’s fictional character from Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The movie with Audrey Hepburn turned her into a kind of avatar for women around the world, but amazingly, few have actually read the original novella. If you haven’t, we strong recommend it, if only for Capote’s amazing way with words but also because the story reveals a much darker side of the glamourized Hollywood Holly. This edition is a later printing from the first year of publication (1958) with tight binding and impeccable cover covered in a protective mylar jacket.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote. Random House New York, 1958.