Capote

A Biography

by Gerald Clarke

ISBN: 0671228110
ISBN-13: 9780671228118
Format: Hardcover

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published date: 1988

Publisher's Notes

Traces his life from his Alabama childhood, through his emergence as a postwar literary lion and his years as a confidante to the jet set, to his precipitous decline.

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Hardcover - Simon & Schuster (1988) - from $1.00
Paperback Reprint - Pub Group West (2005) - from $1.50

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