He is trying to steer her in the right direction and decides to bring her to New York City where she will live with him and go to school. Someone recommended this book to me as the best memoir she had ever read. At it's core, this is a parenting book, and it does reflect that journey. Breakfast at Tiffany’s was originally going to be published in Harper’s Bazaar, but the magazine’s parent company, the Hearst Corporation, felt uncomfortable printing some elements of the novella. Seems as if he was placing HIS lost “reality” on HER. Perhaps one such part is the fact that his 13-year-old niece is a freshman in high school. I wrote the damned thing. "My students can't get enough of your charts and their results have gone through the roof." COND: Stanley Lebowsky. Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Ed is middle-aged single gay man living in New York. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Breakfast at Tiffany… A. Shipped with USPS Media Mail. Let the stories live on. This is a great memoir about an uncle and his niece. It's based on a true story, although Ed admits that some parts are fictionalized. This is probably the 4th or 5th time I've read this book. It was nominated for a total of five awards. His life is pretty cool - nice NY apartment, good job in the movie business - and then he offers to take in his troubled 13-year-old niece, Tiffany. I laughed out loud genuinely many times and thought Tiffany was exactly what her uncle believed she was and that is a brilliant,spunky,talented young woman who just needed to be believed in. If he felt he needed a shot in the arm, what he got proved more like electroshock therapy. After a desperate call from his sister at her wit's end, his street-wise thirteen-year-old niece Tiffany--a writhing ball of adolescent anger -- comes to live with him. Go ahead and read it. Condition is Acceptable. Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Is Dakota Fanning 13 yet? Let me say right away that I take my hat off to Mr Wintle for his brave and, dare-I-say foolhardy, venture. TV Show Quotes. 2 pre-owned from $13.45. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany… Let me say right away that I take my hat off to Mr Wintle for his brave and, dare-I-say foolhardy, venture. BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S Genre musical show Notes - Orig prod rec live. Funny, touching, sad, and honest. Recommended by Ruth, who has always read something worthwhile for her bookclub! Breakfast at Tiffany's is Truman Capote's best-loved work of fiction and arguably one of the finest American novellas. Heartwrenching, honest, humourous and smart this one will like.