{"id":1049,"date":"2011-04-01T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:01:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:01:39","slug":"breakfast-at-tiffanys-by-truman-capote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s by Truman Capote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/breakfast-2Bat-2Btiffany-2527s.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/breakfast-2Bat-2Btiffany-2527s-191x300.jpg\" width=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000030\/\"><b><span style=\"color: #b45f06;\">Audrey Hepburn<\/span><\/b><\/a> fan but I was never much of fan of the movie &#8220;<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0054698\/\"><span style=\"color: #b45f06;\">Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s<\/span><\/a><\/b>.&#8221; There didn&#8217;t seem to be anything to it, just a lightweight romantic comedy. I read an essay about the book, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_%28novella%29\"><span style=\"color: #b45f06;\"><b>Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s<\/b><\/span><\/a>&#8221; though and how it wasn&#8217;t really anything like the movie. It was darker, with an edge. That is more of what I would expect from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Truman_Capote\"><b><span style=\"color: #b45f06;\">Truman Capote<\/span><\/b><\/a>. So this book has been on my TBR list for some time.<\/p>\n<p>The book is really a novella. And indeed it is darker. Holly Golightly is basically a prostitute. I mean she accepts money from men as a price for her companionship, lots of men (about $35 to $50, to &#8220;tip the lady&#8217;s room attendant.&#8221;) She also gets paid about $100 a week for about an hour of work visiting a crime boss in Sing Sing and giving and receiving coded messages. The book is about the friendship between  her and an unnamed narrator over the course of a year or so. They are both tenants in a brownstone. They guys like Holly and they spend some time together and she is a fun girl to be with.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, she gets in trouble because of the business with the crime boss, and the book ends pretty suddenly and no loose ends are tied up. <\/p>\n<p>I loved the book. It has an edge to it. I just can&#8217;t see Audrey Hepburn playing a prostitute though.<\/p>\n<p>I give the book at 3.5 stars out of five. Give it a shot. Your library has it. Won&#8217;t cost you a thing. I&#8217;ll be reading more Truman Capote. He is most famous of course for &#8220;<span style=\"color: #b45f06;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/In_Cold_Blood\">In Cold Blood<\/a>.<\/span>&#8221; I am not sure that I&#8217;m up for it quite yet.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0 0 0;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogcritics.org\/music\/article\/music-review-holly-golightly-and-the\/\">Music Review: Holly Golightly and The Brokeoffs &#8211; No Help Needed<\/a> (blogcritics.org)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/zemified_e.png\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big Audrey Hepburn fan but I was never much of fan of the movie &#8220;Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s.&#8221; There didn&#8217;t seem to be anything to it, just a lightweight romantic comedy. I read an essay about the book, &#8220;Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s&#8221; though and how it wasn&#8217;t really anything like the movie. 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