New York City, NY: Doubleday, Date: 1997. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Doubleday, 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 498 pages. Massive Oral Biography on subject. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now rare. Presents George Plimpton's "Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, And Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career". Engrossing and almost definitive as such. "Nobody can match George Plimpton as an adroit weaver of interviews into a tight narrative fabric. His book doesn't knock the biography, 'Capote', off the shelf, but it's so much more fun to read. Brimming with important literary history" (Tim Appelo). Another legendary writer explained to Plimpton why Capote was the Real Thing and F. Scott Fitzgerald's successor, despite the unavoidable distractions of celebrity and reality: "The scene stirring with rightness and strangeness, the compressed phrase, the exact yet imaginative word, the devastating metaphorical aptness, a feeling of concentrated excess which at the same time gives the effect of being crystalline" (James Dickey). About Plimpton: By the time he died in ...