The Complete Stories

FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, SEPTEMBER 2005

Compilation copyright © 2004 by The Truman Capote Literary Trust

Biographical note copyright © 1993 by Random House, Inc.

Introduction copyright © 2004 by Reynolds Price

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2004.

Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage International and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Owing to limitations of space, story credits can be found beginning on this page.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Random House edition as follows:

Capote, Truman.

[Short Stories]

The complete stories of Truman Capote / introduction by Reynolds Price.

p. cm.

I. Price, Reynolds. II. Title.

PS3505.A59A6 2004

813’.54—dc22

2004046876

eISBN: 978-0-345-80306-1

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