April Book #1

Book: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Age-range: 16 and up

What a lot of people don't know is Truman Capote didn't want Audrey Hepburn to play Holly Golightly; he wanted Marilyn Monroe. This intrigued me enough to read his barely-over-100-pages novella a few years ago. Every once in a while I read it again.

If you've seen the movie you're familiar with the story. And if you haven't seen the movie then something is wrong with you and I don't want you reading my blog.

The Holly Golightly of the novella is a lot more Marilyn than Audrey, although a lot of Holly's lines in the movie are pulled directly from the novella. And I mean word for word! There isn't a large amount of expansion on any of the themes in the movie, but it is interesting to see Capote's vision of Holly compared to the Hollywood version.

Happy reading!