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Music for Chameleons
  • Published: 8 June 2001
  • ISBN: 9780141184616
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $37.99

Music for Chameleons

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At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a ‘nonfiction novel’ based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer.Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also in this volume are six short stories and seven ‘conversational portraits’ including a touching one of Marilyn Monroe, the ‘beautiful child’ and a hilarious one of a dope-smoking cleaning lady doing her rounds in New York.
  • Published: 8 June 2001
  • ISBN: 9780141184616
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $37.99
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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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