About the Book

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.

Product Details

Media: Hardcover Book, 128 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Modern Library

Edition: Unknown

ISBN-10: 0679602372

Publication Date: Nov. 12th, 1996

ISBN-13: 9780679602378

Dimensions: 4.87 x 7.52 x 0.61 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.45 lbs

• Categories: General Biography & Autobiography Classics Fiction