A Christmas memory
Capote, Truman, 1924-19842020
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Looking back on childhood Christmases on his relatives' sprawling Alabama farm, Buddy records his unlikely friendship with his beloved maiden 'aunt', Sook: foraging for pecans to bake into fruitcakes and greenery to decorate the house; rising before dawn to prepare feasts for a ragged assembly of family, farmhands and neighbours; making kites - too broke to buy gifts - to fly beneath crisp winter skies. And he remembers how it was fair-minded, kind-natured Sook who comforted him when harsh realities - luckless parents, cruel classmates and the injustice of the adult world - intruded on this simple existence. With her irrepressible sense of wonder and fun, Sook taught him the true meaning of good will.
Main title:
A Christmas memory / Truman Capote.
Author:
Capote, Truman, 1924-1984, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2020.
Collation:
96 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780241474419 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.54813.54 CAPO813.54 CAP
Language:
English
BRN:
1918133
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