Breakfast at Tiffany's (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Truman Streckfus Persons
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Work: Novella
- Genres: Long fiction, Novella
- Subjects: New York, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, New York City, 1940’s, Prostitution or prostitutes, Women, Loneliness, Apartment houses
- Locales: New York, NY
Breakfast at Tiffany's is a first-person narrative with a young male writer as its single point of view. The narrator relates what he observes of the life and experiences of Holly Golightly, a young Texas woman who has come to New York in the early 1940's seeking new life, excitement, and glamour, which she feels is in keeping with her freewheeling, sometimes irresponsible, approach to life.
Like Other Voices, Other Rooms, which preceded it, Breakfast at Tiffany's presents a free-spirited person trying to escape from the tawdry aspects of a past life by...
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