Name: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Rating: 3.4 (10 reviews)

Truman Capote

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a novella by Truman Capote published in 1958. In it, a contemporary writer recalls his early days in New York City, when he makes the acquaintance of his remarkable neighbor, Holly Golightly, who is one of Capote's best-known creations.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Ingrid

But I haven't any right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. 

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Ashley Pennington

The narrative changes and it can be hard to know who is talking or what is going on.  There is a lot going on in the story, but I found it an interesting story.

Laura Walden

Capote is a master. Every sentence is dense but somehow airy and effortless. The style combines Capote's Louisiana/Alabama crassness with his New York style and debauchery, producing a wildly entertaining story (better than the movie, if I can say so). This volume also includes a few of his short-stories, including the beloved A Christmas Memory. This lesson stays with me: "As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes."

Luke Stamps

Ann Gabrielle

I’m a little more critical of it now after I read it in 2018 but god I am still crying and my heart still hurts lol

this Reddit review made me cry even more (🤣🤣🤣): 

Holly's a girl who insists on being an independent - she runs away from anyone or anything that could attach her to anything. At the end of the story she realizes that this attitude adds up to a sad, lonely life - but it's too late.

Na to ze je to mentally ill, lowkey hateable manic pixie dream girl napísaná bielym Američanom v pedesiatomôsmom... the ending made me emotional...?

Klára Kováčiková 

Not quite like the movie, which was not entirely surprising. However, I must say casting Audrey Hepburn for the role of Holly was genius. Quick, fun read. 

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