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Taking its place next to Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood on the Modern Library bookshelf is this new and original edition of Capote's most famous short stories: "A Christmas Memory, " "One Christmas, " and "A Thanksgiving Memory." All three stories are distinguished by Capote's delicate interplay of childhood sensibility and recollective vision.

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杜鲁门·卡坡蒂（Truman Capote, 1924-1984），20世纪中叶美国最富传奇色彩的天才作家，在文坛和名流圈中都曾辉映一时，著有短篇小说集、长篇小说和剧本若干。少时习作以短篇小说起步，两度获欧·亨利奖。1966以长篇纪实小说《冷血》蜚声世界。《圣诞忆旧集》是其短篇小说代表作。