- This was our chosen book for November’s Read-Along.
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
Summary from GoodReads:
Holly Golightly is generally up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She hasn’t got a past. She doesn’t want to belong to anything or anyone, not even to her one-eyed rag-bag pirate of a cat. One day Holly might find somewhere she belongs.
My Review:
My first experience with Breakfast at Tiffany’s was, like I imagine mosts to be, colored with Audrey Hepburn’s charm and George Peppard’s blue eyes. While it’s not one of my favorite movies of Hepburns (Roman Holiday holds that honor), it has it’s quirky, sweet moments and is quite the classic.
I wasn’t sure what to expect of Truman Capote’s writing, but I did expect a little more than I got, I think. Without Hepburn there to make the story flow and to breathe life into the dialogue I found the book to be a little more.. snobbish. Although, strip away the view and I guess that’s exactly who Holly Golightly was, a snobbish, flirtatious girl who treated people pretty abominably, when you actually think about it.
The story is only 111 pages long, and the one thing that it did have going for it was its short length. I’m still not sure how they managed to make a 2ish hour movie out of it (which is actually longer than the time it took for me to read the book), but it does explain why the movie seems to drag in some places. The book flows quite a bit and time did pass quickly while I was reading it. But, overall, I think for a more charming example of the type of girl Capote portrays Holly Golightly to be.. I would suggest you look to Winifred Watson’s Delysia Lafosse from Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. She’s what the perfect written Holly Golightly would be to me, utterly charming, full of life and.. essentially, who Audrey Hepburn portrayed Holly to be on the screen.
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