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Gordon Lishs first novel tells the story of a serial killer who wants Truman Capote to write his biography. In the letter the killer writes to Capote, the details of his life and his modus operandi are revealed.
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Serial murderers--Fiction, Psychopaths--Fiction, New York (N.Y.)--Fiction, Psychological fiction, Epistolary fiction.
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1996
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PS3562.I74D4 1996eb
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813/.54
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Serial murderers--Fiction, Psychopaths--Fiction, New York (N.Y.)--Fiction, Psychological fiction, Epistolary fiction.
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Dear Mr. Capote
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ALSO BY GORDON LISH
What I Know So Far Peru Mourner at the Door Extravaganza My Romance Zimzum Selected Stories Epigraph
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Dear Mr. Capote
A Novel
Gordon Lish
FOUR WALLS EIGHT WINDOWS NEW YORK / LONDON
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1983, 1996 BY GORDON LISH
PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES BY FOUR WALLS EIGHT WINDOWS 39 WEST 14TH STREET NEW YORK, N.Y. 10011
U.K. OFFICES: FOUR WALLS EIGHT WINDOWS/TURNAROUND 27 HORSELL ROAD LONDON N51 XL
FIRST CLOTH EDITION PUBLISHED BY HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON IN 1983. FIRST PAPER EDITION PUBLISHED BY SCRIBNER SIGNATURE EDITIONS IN 1986. FIRST FOUR WALLS EIGHT WINDOWS PAPER EDITION PUBLISHED IN 1996.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED, STORED IN A DATABASE OR OTHER RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, OR TRANSMITTED IN ANY FORM, BY ANY MEANS, INCLUDING MECHANICAL, ELECTRONIC, PHOTOCOPYING, RECORDING, OR OTHERWISE, WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA: LISH, GORDON.
DEAR MR. CAPOTE: A NOVEL / GORDON LISH. P. CM. ISBN 1-56858-079-7 (PBK) 1. TITLE PS3562.174D4 1996 813'.54DC20 96-25820 CIP
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES TEXT DESIGN BY INK, INC. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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FOR HELEN DEUTSCH AND OUR ADELE AND TO KATHRYN BELDEN
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This is the twelfth start of the letter I am sending. Here is the reason it's the twelfth start. The reason is to try out voices! I want the right one. Granted, they sound like the right one for a while. But is a while long enough? It is like years ago when I did a voice for fifteen minutes, time out for commercial announcements. I am making reference to my former profession on the radio, a quarter hour for each voice.
Sometimes two in less than that.
Nothing's changed. I know how long a minute is.
Here are some of the starts I tried.
Dear Mr. Capote, Effectuate a good grip on your socks! Get ready to shake, rattle, and roll! Is this your lucky day or is this your lucky day?
Dear Mr. Capote, Please listen. All I am doing is begging for you to listen. Listen, effectuate is one of the words so far.
Dear Mr. C., You know who this is? Answer: This is the person who can make a certain writer millions if a certain writer plays his cards right, which I do not have to tell you is not what a certain Mr. Norman Mailer did!
Dear Mr. Capote, With your permission, I will go ahead and introduce myself. Hint: I am the one who is killing the people. Correction: Just the ones which when Nature calls sit down to you-know-what.
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Dear Mr. Capote, Credit where credit is due. I do not have to suck up to someone in your circle. I myself am in the papers and also on all of the channels. I am a household word. I am the party which Gotham looks for, except name me the Gothamite who is (joke) using both eyes for them to do it, ha ha. All right, I ask youwho has Gotham scared shitless, Norman, me, or you?
Dear Mr. Capote, Call Random House! Tell them to clear the deck, stop the presses, whip out their checkbook and start practicing zeros!
Dear Mr. Capote, In all humility, I am already more famous than you are even if in the public nobody knows my name by heart. But I say do not try skipping to the sign-off to find it yet. Reason: It is not there yet (joke) because I'm not, ha ha.
Dear Truman, Norman had the ball, I handed him the ball, and he muffed. But do I have to tell you why? Okay, too many children! Believe me, I am familiar with the situation. It is the one a man with children gets in. So this in a nutshell is my personal analysis, take it or leave it. Whereas present company is clean as a whistle in the department I just made mention of. Granted, this is why I should be horse-whipped for picking Mr. M. in the first place.
Dear Mr. Capote, It is my pleasure to inform you respective to the fact that this letter is germane to the legalized disposition of the media rights pursuant to my story, it being lawfully agreed I shall deem it correct and acceptable
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Dear Mr. Capote, It's all right, admit it. Hint: You knew you were next in line. So where else could yours truly go, considering? There is Norman Mailer, you bet, but is this individual still a legitimate factor? Let's face it, the nervy s.o.b. played himself right out of the picture!
That was ten of the starts. The other one I tore up. Correction: Eleven, not counting the one I am doing now, which is No. 12.
Listen, do me a favor and don't ask me what the missing start was. Between you, me, and the lamppost, it is not overly important. The major thing is proof. Here it is. What I say I am is one hundred percent the facts. This is a person which is reliable talking.
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