It is worthwhile if you are only familiar with Holly Golightly from the Audrey Hepburn movie to read the original novella that introduced this famous character. Holly is a creature that never quite fits into her world, all at once naive and worldly, self-involved and compassionate, emotionless and passionate. Her paradoxes are what make her fascinating, both to us and to the men who come in contact with her. Holly’s fate in the novella is not a happy one as in the movie, but is rather much more nebulous—it is left to the reader to judge, and that is somehow more satisfying. This volume also contains three of Capote’s most famous short stories, including “A Christmas Memory,” which seems a lot sadder to me now than when I first read it in high school.