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  • Published: 13 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241951453
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $28.00

Breakfast at Tiffany's




The dazzling New York novel that inspired the classic 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn

'What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits...'

Meet Holly Golightly - a free spirited, lop-sided romantic girl about town. With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly is a style sensation wherever she goes. Her apartment rocks to Martini-soaked parties and she plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate dream - to find a real life place like Tiffany's that makes her feel at home.

Full of sharp wit and exuberant, larger-than-life characters which vividly capture the restless, madcap era of 1940s New York, Breakfast at Tiffany's will make you fall in love, perhaps for the first time, with a book.

  • Published: 13 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241951453
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $28.00

About the author

Truman Capote

Truman Capote was born in New Orleans on September 30, 1924. In 1948 his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, was published to international critical acclaim, assuring Capote a place among the prominent postwar American writers. He won the O. Henry Memorial Short Story Prize twice and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His other works include Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Grass Harp, and the nonfiction masterpiece In Cold Blood. He died on August 25, 1984.

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Praise for Breakfast at Tiffany's

The most romantic story ever written

Alex James, Guardian

A master writer ... makes the heart sing and the narrative fly

The New York Times

One of the century's greatest storytellers

Independent on Sunday