![]() ![]() ![]() Not quite as consistently seasonal as I’d hoped but quality writing, nevertheless. This is a lovely re-issue of some old favourites. One of the final stories is extremely evocative with its description of Christmas and the ‘perfect’ winter weather we associate with the season but don’t often get, depending on where you live, of course: ‘. It has a tragic ending which leaves one feeling bereft but not overly sentimental - all part of Capote’s skills as a writer. The aforementioned ‘Miss Bobbit’ is the stand-out story for me, in that it draws so beautifully on her characteristics and the almost ‘foreign’ nature of her behaviour at the time. Here, Capote writes about memories of events, such as Christmases and a tragic story regarding an intriguing character, Miss Bobbit, bringing to life and evoking the mid-20th Century years in which he was writing.Įven though I enjoyed the collection, the format of the NetGalley copy made it a little hard to follow - some appear to not have titles and I like a clickable contents page, too! But I digress. ![]() I have enjoyed Truman Capote’s books in the past, namely ‘In Cold Blood’, which is very different to this collection. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |