About the book: 2008 / Truman Capote is one of the largest American prose writers of the twentieth century, the author of widely known novels and short stories, a prominent journalist and essayist. The first volume of the writer's collected works includes the debut novel "Summer Cruise", written by the twenty-year-old Capote and for sixty years considered lost, the early novel "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (1948) - a Southern Gothic story of childhood innocence in a corrupt, decaying world - as well as the stories “Voices of the Grass” (1951) and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1958) - a New York social comedy that became the literary basis for the film of the same name (1961) starring Audrey Hepburn.