To talk about Truman Capote is to start a multi-dimensional, multi-layered conversation, which includes talking about a horrific crime, an inaugural novel, and a writer whose personal legend arguably grows even more than his literary consideration.
His ambition was his passport, first to escape the rural environment of Louisiana, and then to New York, the mecca of a writer and aspiring high society candidate.
Capote proclaimed his intention to invent the genre of the nonfiction novel, which he realized with In Cold Blood, a work that would forever alter literature.
His alcohol and drug addictions competed daily with great challenges, including his desire to create a work akin to Proust's In Search of Lost Time, which he considered life-defining.
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