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A Christmas Memory
By Capote, Truman & Peck, Beth
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-67980-040-8
- Publisher
- New York : Knopf, c1989.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 1989
Gr 3-Up This tiny gem of a holiday story, although a memory, is told in the present tense, which gives it a certain immediacy. Written by Capote as if a backward glance at his childhood while in college, the story traces a month of pre-Christmas doings in his parentless, poor household. The seven-year-old and his "friend," a distant, eccentric, and in those times elderly (mid-sixties), cousin prepare several dozen...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
