The Grass Harp
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Product Description <br/>Set in a small Southern town in the 1930s, this classic work tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. Now a major motion picture from Fine Line Features, starring Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Piper Laurie, and Nell Carter.<br/> From the Inside Flap <br/>Set in a small Southern town in the 1930s, this classic work tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. Now a major motion picture from Fine Line Features, starring Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Piper Laurie, and Nell Carter.<br/> About the Author <br/>Truman Capote was a native of New Orleans, where he was born on September 30, 1924. His first novel,<br/>Other Voices, Other Rooms, was an international literary success when first published in 1948, and accorded the author a prominent place among the writers of America's postwar generation. He sustained this position subsequently with short-story collections (<br/>A Tree of Night, among others), novels and novellas (<br/>The Grass Harp and<br/>Breakfast at Tiffany's), some of the best travel writing of our time (<br/>Local Color), profiles and reportage that appeared originally in<br/>The New Yorker (<br/>The Duke in His Domain and<br/>The Muses Are Heard), a true-crime masterpiece (<br/>In Cold Blood), several short memiors about his childhood in the South (<br/>A Christmas Memory, The Thanksgiving Visitor, and One Christmas), two plays (<br/>The Grass Harp and<br/>House of Flowers and two films (<br/>Beat the devil and<br/>The Innocents).<br/><br/>Mr. Capote twice won the O.Henry Memorial Short Story Prize and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in August 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.
The Grass Harp Truman Capote
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Product Description <br/>Set in a small Southern town in the 1930s, this classic work tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. Now a major motion picture from Fine Line Features, starring Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Piper Laurie, and Nell Carter.<br/> From the Inside Flap <br/>Set in a small Southern town in the 1930s, this classic work tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. Now a major motion picture from Fine Line Features, starring Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Piper Laurie, and Nell Carter.<br/> About the Author <br/>Truman Capote was a native of New Orleans, where he was born on September 30, 1924. His first novel,<br/>Other Voices, Other Rooms, was an international literary success when first published in 1948, and accorded the author a prominent place among the writers of America's postwar generation. He sustained this position subsequently with short-story collections (<br/>A Tree of Night, among others), novels and novellas (<br/>The Grass Harp and<br/>Breakfast at Tiffany's), some of the best travel writing of our time (<br/>Local Color), profiles and reportage that appeared originally in<br/>The New Yorker (<br/>The Duke in His Domain and<br/>The Muses Are Heard), a true-crime masterpiece (<br/>In Cold Blood), several short memiors about his childhood in the South (<br/>A Christmas Memory, The Thanksgiving Visitor, and One Christmas), two plays (<br/>The Grass Harp and<br/>House of Flowers and two films (<br/>Beat the devil and<br/>The Innocents).<br/><br/>Mr. Capote twice won the O.Henry Memorial Short Story Prize and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in August 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.