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Andrew O’Hagan: Truman Capote, 2 April 1998
Truman Capote: In which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career
by George Plimpton.
Picador, 498 pp., £20, February 1998,0 330 36871 0 Show More
by George Plimpton.
Picador, 498 pp., £20, February 1998,
“... as much as it does the world of Capote. And that is one of the book’s strengths: Plimpton, like James Boswell, is an enthusiast for the world he is conjuring; he knows it well, knows all the figures in the carpet; the people are for the most part his acquaintances too, and his way of arranging their words is bent by his own understanding of how it all ... ”