• Short Prose

• Type: Short Story
• Length: 5 pages

• Found in: The Complete Stories of Truman Capote (short story collection)

Among the Paths to Eden is a 1960 short story by American author Truman Capote. - AsNotedIn

ONE Saturday in March, an occasion of pleasant winds and sailing clouds, Mr Ivor Belli bought from a Brooklyn florist a fine mass of jonquils and conveyed them, first by subway, then foot, to an immense cemetery in Queens, a site unvisited by him since he had seen his wife buried there the previous autumn. Sentiment could not be credited with returning him today, for Mrs Belli, to whom he had been married twenty-seven years, during which time she had produced two now-grown and matrimonially-settled daughters, had been a woman of many natures, most of them trying: he had no desire to renew so unsoothing an acquaintance, even in spirit. Truman Capote, Among the Paths to Eden

Places

• Calvary Cemetery (Queens, NYC), New York City The cemetery was not a reposeful, pretty place was, in fact, a damned frightening one: acres of fog-colored stone spilled across a sparsely grassed and shadeless plateau.
• Queens NYC, New York City Mr Ivor Belli bought from a Brooklyn florist a fine mass of jonquils and conveyed them, first by subway, then foot, to an immense cemetery in Queens, a site unvisited by him since he had seen his wife buried there the previous autumn.

Food

• Peanut