Breakfast at Tiffany's

Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn`s sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, Breakfast at Tiffany`s is Truman Capote`s timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly, published in Penguin Modern Classics. It`s New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany`s. And nice girls don`t, except, of course, for Holly Golightly: glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while - down. Pursued by to Salvatore `Sally` Tomato, the Mafia sugar-daddy doing life in Sing Sing and `Rusty` Trawler, the blue-chinned, cuff-shooting millionaire man about women about town, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly `top banana in the shock deparment`, and one of the shining flowers of American fiction.