num_pages: 288
description: In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders then with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise; and a proper Connecticut householder with a ruinous obsession for a twelve-year-old girl he has never met. And we meet Capote himself, who, whether he is smoking with his cleaning lady or trading sexual gossip with Marilyn Monroe, remainds one of the most elegant, malicious, yet compassionate writers to train his eye on the social fauna of our time.
language: English
title: Music for Chameleons
titlecomplete: Music for Chameleons
genres: Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, True Crime, Essays, The United States Of America, American, Classics
ratings_count: 10438
publisher: Signet