The Washington Post, June 20th, 1988
If the ecstatic reviews it's been receiving are any guide, Gerald Clarke's new biography of Truman Capote is likely to be popular beach reading this summer. The book is fat, juicy, anecdotal, scandalous: all the things readers look for when what is on their minds is escape. It is the biography, though, not of a movie star or a pop musician, but of a writer with pretensions to literary standing-and thereby hangs a tale or two. Let it be said at the outset that the reviewers are quite right: Clarke has done a terrific job on a complex and difficult subject. He is thorough, scrupulous and fair. I...
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