Capote: A Biography

Written by:
Gerald Clarke
Narrated by:
Paul Boehmer

Unabridged Audiobook

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April 2021
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25 hours 16 minutes
Summary
The national bestselling biography and the basis for the film Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in an Academy Award-winning turn.

One of the strongest fiction writers of his generation, Truman Capote became a literary star while still in his teens. His most phenomenal successes include Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood, and Other Voices, Other Rooms. Even while his literary achievements were setting the standards that other fiction and nonfiction writers would follow for generations, Capote descended into a spiral of self-destruction and despair.

First published in 1988-just four years after Capote's death, Clarke paints a vivid behind-the-scenes picture of the author's life-based on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with the man himself and the people close to him. From the glittering heights of notoriety and parties with the rich and famous to his later struggles with addiction, Capote emerges as a richly multidimensional person-both brilliant and flawed.
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Melissa P.

I tried SO hard to like this book. The author struggled to find fault in Capote. If Truman Capote ever needed a cheerleader he got one with this book. It just didn’t feel authentic. After 18 hours I quit.

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