A Christmas Memory

Author: Truman Capote

USA | c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) | Christmas | Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 5^th November 2026 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of the 'Little Clothbound Classics' series.

Hardback | 160 pages
168mm x 118mm | 166g

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Selected from across Capote's writing life, they range from nostalgic portraits of childhood to more unsettling works that reveal the darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South of Capote's youth, a young boy, Buddy, and his beloved maiden 'aunt' Sook forage for pecans and whiskey to bake into fruitcakes, make kites – too broke to buy gifts – and rise before dawn to prepare feasts for a ragged assembly of guests; it is Sook who teaches Buddy the true meaning of good will. In other stories, an unlikely festive miracle, of sorts, occurs at a local drugstore; a lonely woman has a troubling encounter in wintry New York. Brimming with feeling, these sparkling tales convey both the wonder and the chill of Christmas time.