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Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's. In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape—her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm. It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's... And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveler, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock department', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction. Also included are three of Capote's best-known stories: • House of Flowers - Ottilie is entranced by a beautiful young man, and leaves her life and friends to live with him and his old grandmother, who seems to hate her. • A Diamond Guitar - Hear the story of the prized possession of a younger prison inmate, a rhinestone-studded guitar. • A Christmas Memory - A poignant tale of two innocents—a small boy and the old woman who is his best friend—whose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.
I don't know if it is because I am lacking in maturity or self assurance but I cannot understand why these Nick Carraway style narrators so often sustain their curiosity and admiration for the manic pixie dream girl near them even after the pixie girl says something unkind about them. Do people who want to write about people or who are content in just watching other people live their lives not have a sense of self which demands self protection, a stroke of ego, a tendency to atleast take on the active role when their feelings are hurt? Is this just a necessity for literary prose or is it a true reflection of certain personality types?
The writing style so far is completely on the allen ginsberg x kerouac x and the hippos were boiled in their tanks x david sedaris track, the main guy is like nick carraway from gatsby, and the girl herself in all her manic pixie dream girl glory is in line with characters like Aunty Mame. But the weirdest thing of all is that her personality and her way of life is reminding me of my mother in law to be.