Items related to A Christmas Memory: One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving...
A holiday classic from "one of the greatest writers and most fascinating society figures in American history" (Vanity Fair)!
First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection from Truman Capote (In Cold Blood; Breakfast at Tiffany's) about his rural Alabama boyhood is a perfect gift for Capote's fans young and old.
Seven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin, Miss Sook Falk: "It's fruitcake weather!" Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship and the memories the two friends share of beloved holiday rituals.
A Christmas Memory has been described as "[a] gem of a holiday story" (School Library Journal, starred review), and this warm and delicately illustrated edition is one you'll want to add to any Christmas or Capote collection.
First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection from Truman Capote (In Cold Blood; Breakfast at Tiffany's) about his rural Alabama boyhood is a perfect gift for Capote's fans young and old.
Seven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin, Miss Sook Falk: "It's fruitcake weather!" Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship and the memories the two friends share of beloved holiday rituals.
A Christmas Memory has been described as "[a] gem of a holiday story" (School Library Journal, starred review), and this warm and delicately illustrated edition is one you'll want to add to any Christmas or Capote collection.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
From the Back Cover:
Available for the first time in a single volume are the three holiday stories that Truman Capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction. Two of these childhood memoirs - "A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor" - center on the author's early years with a family of distant relatives in rural Alabama. Both pay loving tribute to an eccentric old-maid cousin, Miss Sook Faulk, who became his best friend. In "A Christmas Memory", Miss Sook, Buddy (the narrator), and their dog, Queenie, celebrate the yuletide in a hilariously tipsy state. In the poignant reminiscence "One Christmas", six-year-old Buddy journeys to New Orleans for a reunion with his estranged father that shatters many illusions. And in "The Thanksgiving Visitor", Miss Sook invites the school bully, Odd Henderson - called by Buddy "the meanest human creature in my experience" - to Thanksgiving dinner.
From the Inside Flap:
Taking its place next to Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood on the Modern Library bookshelf is this new and original edition of Capote's most famous short stories: "A Christmas Memory," "One Christmas," and "A Thanksgiving Memory." All three stories are distinguished by Capote's delicate interplay of childhood sensibility and recollective vision.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherModern Library
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0679602372
- ISBN 13 9780679602378
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages128
- Rating
Buy New
Learn more about this copy
US$ 20.03
Shipping:
FREE
Within U.S.A.
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
A Christmas Memory: One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving Visitor (Modern Library)
Published by
Modern Library
(1996)
ISBN 10: 0679602372
ISBN 13: 9780679602378
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 2
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 0679602372-11-18134069
Buy New
US$ 20.03
Convert currency
Stock Image
A Christmas Memory: One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving Visitor (Modern Library)
Published by
Modern Library
(1996)
ISBN 10: 0679602372
ISBN 13: 9780679602378
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Brand New Copy. Seller Inventory # BBB_new0679602372
Buy New
US$ 19.40
Convert currency
Stock Image
A Christmas Memory: One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving Visitor (Modern Library)
Published by
Modern Library
(1996)
ISBN 10: 0679602372
ISBN 13: 9780679602378
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Buy for Great customer experience. Seller Inventory # GoldenDragon0679602372
Buy New
US$ 23.82
Convert currency
Stock Image
A Christmas Memory: One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving Visitor (Modern Library)
Published by
Modern Library
(1996)
ISBN 10: 0679602372
ISBN 13: 9780679602378
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_0679602372
Buy New
US$ 23.09
Convert currency
Stock Image
A Christmas Memory: One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving Visitor (Modern Library)
Published by
Modern Library
(1996)
ISBN 10: 0679602372
ISBN 13: 9780679602378
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition 0.45. Seller Inventory # bk0679602372xvz189zvxnew
Buy New
US$ 27.37
Convert currency
Stock Image
A Christmas Memory: One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving Visitor (Modern Library)
Published by
Modern Library
(1996)
ISBN 10: 0679602372
ISBN 13: 9780679602378
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard0679602372
Buy New
US$ 26.51
Convert currency
Stock Image
A Christmas Memory: One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving Visitor (Modern Library)
Published by
Modern Library
(1996)
ISBN 10: 0679602372
ISBN 13: 9780679602378
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published 0.45. Seller Inventory # 353-0679602372-new
Buy New
US$ 30.78
Convert currency
Stock Image
A Christmas Memory: One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving Visitor (Modern Library)
Published by
Modern Library
(1996)
ISBN 10: 0679602372
ISBN 13: 9780679602378
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think0679602372
Buy New
US$ 27.44
Convert currency
Stock Image
A Christmas Memory: One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving Visitor (Modern Library)
Published by
Modern Library
(1996)
ISBN 10: 0679602372
ISBN 13: 9780679602378
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # FrontCover0679602372
Buy New
US$ 28.66
Convert currency
Stock Image
A Christmas Memory: One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving Visitor (Modern Library)
Published by
Modern Library
(1996)
ISBN 10: 0679602372
ISBN 13: 9780679602378
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # Hafa_fresh_0679602372
Buy New
US$ 47.20
Convert currency