Truman Capote 
A Christmas Memory 

Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote, the author of Breakfast at Tiffany»s,
are a captivating tribute to the Christmas season

»We set about choosing a tree. ‘It should be, ‘ muses my friend, ‘twice as tall as a boy. So a boy can»t steal the star.»’
Selected from across Truman Capote»s writing life, these Christmas stories range from nostalgic, semi-autobiographical portraits of childhood to more unsettling tales of darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South of Capote»s youth, a young boy, Buddy, and his beloved maiden »aunt» Sook forage for pecans and whiskey to bake into fruitcakes, make kites — too broke to buy gifts — and rise before dawn to prepare feasts for a ragged assembly of guests; while in other stories, a lonely woman has a troubling encounter in wintry New York and an unlikely festive miracle, of sorts, occurs at a local drugstore.
Brimming with feeling, these sparkling tales convey both the wonder and the chill of Christmas time.