A Christmas Memory av Truman Capote

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<p><b>Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote,</b><b>the author of <i>Breakfast at Tiffany''s</i>,</b><b><br>are a captivating tribute to the Christmas season<br></b><br><i>''We set about choosing a tree. "It should be," muses my friend, "twice as tall as a boy. So a boy can''t steal the star."''<br></i><br>Selected from across Truman Capote''s writing life, these Christmas stories range from nostalgic, semi-autobiographical portraits of childhood to more unsettling tales of darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South of Capote''s youth, a young boy, Buddy, and his beloved maiden ''aunt'' Sook forage for pecans and whiskey to bake into fruitcakes, make kites - too broke to buy gifts - and rise before dawn to prepare feasts for a ragged assembly of guests; while in other stories, a lonely woman has a troubling encounter in wintry New York and an unlikely festive miracle, of sorts, occurs at a local drugstore.<br><br><b>Brimming with feeling, these sparkling ta