About the book: 2008 / The third volume of the collected works of the American writer Truman Capote introduces the reader to Capote the novelist: it includes selected stories from the author’s collections of 1949–1966, as well as The author's last book is a collection of short stories, Music for Chameleons (1980). The pages of the writer's final masterpiece are inhabited by a mysterious killer who sends letters to his victims with news of their imminent death, an exemplary family man obsessed with a destructive passion for a twelve-year-old girl whom he has never seen, and finally, Capote himself, who in all situations and circumstances remains sophisticated, evil and at the same time a compassionate observer of the human “menagerie”»…