Truman Capote is my favorite writer. His writing is perfect and his use of the English language is so elegant and beautiful that I must recommend this short story book.

The stories are: The Walls Are Cold, A Mink of One's Own, The Shape of Things, Jug of Silver, Miriam, My Side of the Matter, Preacher's Legend, A Tree of Night, The Headless Hawk, Shut a Final Door, Children on Their Birthdays, Master Misery, The Bargain (never before published), A Diamond Guitar, House of Flowers, A Christmas Memory, Among the Paths to Eden, The Thanksgiving Visitor, Mojave and One Christmas.