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668:. The movie was transposed to 1960 rather than the 1940s, the period of the novella. In addition to this, at the end of the film the protagonist and Holly fall in love and stay together, whereas in the novella there is no love affair whatsoever – Holly just leaves the United States and the narrator has no idea what happened to her since then, except for a photograph of a wood carving found years later in Africa which bears a striking resemblance to Holly. In addition, there are many other changes, including major omissions, to the plot and main character in the film from the novella. Capote originally envisioned 430:
shared attributes both women were born in the rural South, with similar "hick" birth names that they changed (Holly Golightly was born Lulamae Barnes in Texas, Nina Capote was born Lillie Mae Faulk in Alabama), both left the husbands they married as teenagers and abandoned relatives they loved and were responsible for, instead going to New York, and both achieved "café society" status through relationships with wealthier men, though Capote's mother was born two decades earlier than the fictional Holly Golightly. Capote was also unsuccessfully sued for
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In early drafts of the story Holly was named Connie Gustafson; Capote later changed her name to Holiday Golightly. He apparently based the character of Holly on several different women, all friends or close acquaintances of his. Claims have been made as to the source of the character, the "real Holly
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The narrator and Holly's friendship develops, but they feud over a trifling matter. However, when the narrator suspects Holly is being watched, he decides it may be right to break the feud to warn her about this person. He is confronted by the man who has been watching her. The man tells the narrator
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As the novella opens, we are introduced to an unnamed narrator who reflects back on his friendship with Holly Golightly. Another old friend, Joe Bell, reaches out to the narrator because he believes a wood carving that he has come across depicts Golightly. We can assume many years have passed, as the
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apartment. An area that experienced many changes following the Civil War, it went through its most major shift at the turn of the century. Broadly speaking, brownstones (the type of building that Holly lives in) were rebranded as more "stylish" places to live, rather than being thought of as decrepit
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Capote's biographer Gerald Clarke wrote "half the women he knew... claimed to be the model for his wacky heroine." Clarke also wrote of the similarities between the author himself and the character. There are also similarities between the lives of Holly and Capote's mother, Nina Capote; among other
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Eventually, Holly's visits to the prison draw suspicion and she is arrested after further evidence unveils that Sally Tomato was running a drug ring. Jose sends her a letter explaining that he does not see a future with her because of her arrest. After getting out on bail, she plans to leave and go
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The narrator recalls the specific night he meets Holly. She climbs through his window in order to escape the man that came home with her that night. She mentions the resemblance the narrator has to her brother, Fred, and asks if she can call him that. As they continue to talk, Holly realizes it is
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We are introduced to a slew of characters that are constantly coming in and out of Holly's apartment. During this scene, she strikes up a conversation with our narrator about how Tiffany's is the only place that calms her when she's feeling anxious or overwhelmed. The title is attributed to this
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ran just one full-page image of Attie's (another was later used as the cover of at least one paperback edition of the novella). Attie's photo was the first-ever visual depiction of Holly Golightly—who is seen laughing and smiling in a nightclub. The novella appeared in the November 1958 issue.
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Though the novella does not take place in the American South, there are mentions of it later in the novella: We follow Golightly's life in Manhattan for the entirety of the novella, but she was actually born in Texas, a place that she was desperate to escape.
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was ousted by the magazine's publisher, the Hearst Corporation, and Hearst executives began asking for changes to the novella's tart language. By this time, Attie's montages had been completed, and Alice Morris, the fiction editor of
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to Brazil without Jose. Before leaving, she sets her cat loose—the cat that she had never given a name. The narrator receives a brief note from her, but hears nothing else. He hopes, though, she has found a place that feels like home.
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girl. As such, she has no job and lives by socializing with wealthy men, who take her to clubs and restaurants, and give her money and expensive presents; she hopes to marry one of them. According to Capote, Golightly is not a
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and outdated buildings. By the 1940s, it had become a fairly affluent area. The novella's setting plays a great role in the plot; various wealthy characters from the Upper East Side come in and out of Holly Golightly's life.
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of Holly's past. He divulges that she was born Lulamae Barnes, and that he is her husband, Doc Golightly. Doc tries to persuade her to come back to Texas with him, but she insists she must stay in New York. They part ways.
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auction house in April 2013. It was sold to Igor Sosin, a Russian billionaire entrepreneur, for US$ 306,000 (equivalent to US$ 400,000 in 2023). Sosin said he planned to display it publicly in Moscow and Monte Carlo.
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Holly finds out her brother has died in the war and this sends her into an emotional down spiral. She eventually strikes up a relationship with a character named Jose Ybarra-Jaegar and plans to move to Brazil with him.
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Ms. Littman, who landed in Los Angeles at midcentury, counted among her closest friends ... Truman Capote, who is said to have distilled that charm into his most famous character, Holly Golightly of 'Breakfast at
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were close friends of Capote, and Dunphy became Capote's life companion after his 1948 divorce from McCracken. In the novella, Holly Golightly is also depicted singing songs from
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for $ 3,000 ($ 42,200 today); by his own account, he specified that he "would not be interested if did not use Attie's photographs". He wrote to
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as Joe Bell. The Greenberg play was produced in the UK in 2016, called "a play with music". It ran at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in the
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The unnamed narrator-writer: a writer who relates his memories of Holly Golightly, the people in her life, and his relationship with her.
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sitcom pilot. Kruschen's role was based on Joe Bell, a major character in Capote's novella who was omitted from the film version.
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for $ 2,000 and intended for publication in its July 1958 issue. It was to be illustrated with a big series of photo montages by
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not to run the novella anyway. Its language and subject matter were still deemed "not suitable", and there was concern that
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Several women (or their agents) claimed to be models for Holly Golightly. Many were dark-haired sophisticated beauties like
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Thursday, and explains to the narrator that she visits a prisoner, Sally Tomato, every Thursday in exchange for $ 100.
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and invasion of privacy by a Manhattan resident named Bonnie Golightly who claimed that he had based Holly on her.
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to call Capote "the most perfect writer of my generation," adding that he "would not have changed two words in
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Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career
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issue to skyrocket. Both Attie and Brodovitch went on to work with Capote on other projects – Attie on
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In 2021, Esquire re-ran the novella online, reuniting the text with many of Attie's original images.
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José Ybarra-Jaegar: A Brazilian diplomat, who is the companion of Mag Wildwood and, later, of Holly.
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Shortly afterward, a collection of the novella and three short stories by Capote was published by
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happy that you are using pictures, as I think they are excellent." But to his disappointment,
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Holiday (Holly) Golightly: downstairs neighbor and center of attention of the writer's memoirs.
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Truman Capote: The Story of His Bizarre and Exotic Boyhood by an Aunt who Helped to Raise Him
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from Hollywood, who has discovered Holly and groomed her to become a professional actress.
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Golightly", in what Capote called the "Holly Golightly Sweepstakes", including socialite
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In autumn 1943, the unnamed narrator befriends Holly Golightly. The two are tenants in a
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Rusty Trawler: A presumably wealthy man, thrice divorced, well known in society circles.
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Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball
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Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and his Black and White Ball
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There have been two adaptations of the novella into stage plays, both directed by
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Mag Wildwood: Holly's friend and sometime roommate, a fellow socialite and model.
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The collection has been reprinted several times with the other short stories, "
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The novella is set in 1940s New York, specifically the Upper East Side, in a
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Doc Golightly: A veterinarian from Texas, whom Holly married as a teenager.
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Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir: With the lost photographs of David Attie
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as Holly, and lobbied the studio for her, but the film was done at
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is in many ways Capote's personal crystallization of Isherwood's
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Joe Bell: A bartender acquainted with both the writer and Holly.
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Norden, Eric (March 1968). "Playboy Interview: Truman Capote".
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as William "Fred" Parsons. The second version was written by
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Capote's original typed manuscript was offered for sale by a
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Capote said Golightly was the favorite of his characters.
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Madame Sapphia Spanella: Another tenant in the brownstone.
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states that the main inspiration for Holly was socialite
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Breakfast at Tiffany's: Music from the Motion Picture
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The Girl who Fell Down: A Biography of Joan McCracken
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Index


Truman Capote
English
Random House
Hardback
paperback
e-book
OCLC
964700
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
novella
Truman Capote
1958
New York City
major motion picture of the same name
brownstone
brownstone
Manhattan
Upper East Side
café society
prostitute
geisha
talent agent
racketeer
Sing Sing
Mr. I. Y. Yunioshi
Gloria Vanderbilt
Oona O'Neill
Carol Grace

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