Ghosts in the Sunlight. Portraits and Observations

Truman Capote, the author of bestsellers such as «The Grass Harp», «In Cold Blood», and «Breakfast at Tiffany's» (the most famous of his works, celebrated in 1961 with a film adaptation starring Audrey Hepburn), is among the greatest American prose writers of the 20th century. This collection comprehensively presents Capote as a master of the literary documentary genre — from his early essays to «A Memory of Will Cather», written the day before his death and never before published; a significant place in the book is occupied by the long novella «The Music is Heard» — Capote's account of touring with an African American troupe that brought the musical «Porgy and Bess» to Moscow and Leningrad back in 1956...