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Breakfast at Tiffany's

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10th September 2018

"Breakfast at Tiffany's"
By: Truman Capote

My copy of this book has the “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” 100 page novella followed by three short stories. The main novella, which I assume is why the vast, vast majority of people would get this book for, is good.

Though the main thing that strikes me about it is the odd way it both has a plot and doesn’t really at the same time. It is told solely from the point of view of a young man living in his first New York apartment in 1943 and his friendship with a young woman who lives in the apartment below his and the whole story has very limited plot told from this view point after the fact with very limited insight given to what actually happened to Holly Golightly.

Essentially what drives the novella is her “job” working for a mobster who is in prison and has hired her to pass on messages to his associates out of prison by claiming she is his niece, having her visit him, and then pass on messages about the “weather”, and the resulting chaos when she is picked up and charged by the police for this. It’s barely shows up the novella, because the main character is unaware of the vast majority of what is happening to Holly, beyond that she is going to prison to visit the mobster once and a week, and then is arrested when the he happens to be with her one day.

It’s more about his relationship with her and her friends and how her disappearance after she was realised on bail affected him. In particular how he never really knew what happened to her after she had failed to get in contact with after her first postcard from South America despite the fact that she had promised to write to him again in that card.

With the three short stories after “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, I really liked the last one which was a story about his life as a young child (seven years old) with one of his favourite relatives at Christmas time. The other two short stories were OK, but forgettable.

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