Doručak kod Tiffanyja / Ljetno krstarenje

She says what she doesn't mean, sleeps with men she doesn't love, and breaks the hearts of those who love her. Capote was already a celebrated writer by the time this novel was published in 1958, and would become one of his most famous and influential works. SUMMER CRUISE The author began this short novel in 1943 and put it aside to write his first published novel, Other Voices, Other Spaces. When he left his Brooklyn apartment in 1966, having achieved financial success with his novel In Cold Blood, he left instructions to his housekeeper to destroy any manuscripts he had left behind. Fortunately, the housekeeper had preserved the manuscript of Summer Cruise, buried among a pile of Capote's letters. Now, after almost half a century, this buried treasure has seen the light of day. The novel is set in New York, immediately after World War II, and the heroine of the story is Grady McNeil, the seventeen-year-old daughter of wealthy financier Lamont McNeil and his wife Lucy, whose main concern is to visit a house in Cannes, which she has not been to since the war, and to decide from which Parisian fashion house to choose a dress for Grady's debut ball. When the McNeils sail for Europe, Grady, at her own insistence, stays in their luxurious apartment on Fifth Avenue, in order to spend the summer in New York alone and free...