• American Literature
• Novels

• Type: Mezzobula
• Length: 142 pages

• Derivative: Breakfast at Tiffany's (film), Film

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a mezzobula, to short to be a novel and too long to be a short story, by American author Truman Capote set in the Upper East Side district of New York City. - AsNotedIn

I AM ALWAYS DRAWN BACK to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods. For instance, there is a brownstone in the East Seventies where, during the early years of the war, I had my first New York apartment. It was one room crowded with attic furniture, a sofa and fat chairs upholstered in that itchy, particular red velvet that one associates with hot days on a train.Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

People

• Ernest Hemingway, by the way, is Hemingway old?
• Georges Simenon, I'd been to a movie, come home and gone to bed with a bourbon nightcap and the newest Simenon.
• W Somerset Maugham, How old is W Somerset Maugham?
• Walter Winchell, Read it in Winchell.
• William Saroyan, I thought writers were quite old. Of course Saroyan isn't old.

Characters

• Doc Golightly, Veterinarian from Texas
• Fred, Neighbor
• Holly Golightly, Cafe society girl
• Joe Bell, Bartender
• Jose Ybarra-Jaegar, Brazilian diplomat
• Madame Sapphia Spanella, First Floor Neighbor
• Mag Wildwood, Friend of Holly Golightly
• Mr I Y Yunioshi, Photographer and neighbor
• O J Berman, Hollywood agent
• Rusty Trawler, Wealthy man

Places

• 21 Club, NYC, New York City Once a visiting relative took me to "21", and there, at a superior table, surrounded by four men ... was Miss Golightly, idly publicly combing her hair.
• Brooklyn Bridge, New York City then moseyed across the Brooklyn Bridge, and on the bridge, as we watched seaward-moving ships pass....
• Central Park, NYC, Uptown We ate lunch at the cafeteria in the park. Afterwards, avoiding the zoo (Holly said she couldn't bear to see anything in a cage), we giggled, ran, sang along the paths toward the old wooden boathouse, now gone.
• P J Clarke's, New York City On the way home I noticed a cab-driver crowd gathered in front of P J Clarke's saloon, apparently attracted there by a happy group of whiskey-eyed Australian army officers baritoning, "Waltzing Matilda".
• Tiffany and Co Flagship Store, New York City I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.
• Upper East Side, There is a brownstone in the East Seventies where, during the early years of the war, I had my first New York apartment.

Food

• Cottage Cheese
• Whiskey Liquor
• White Angel (cocktail) Cocktail