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Yachts and Things

By: Truman Capote
Narrated by: Victor Bevine
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Capote's previously lost and unpublished tale "Yachts and Things" was recently discovered by Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kasher in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library. Written at the height of his career and socialite life, this short, thinly-veiled work of fiction tells the story of two friends about to take an "idyllic three-week cruise in the Mediterranean aboard a friend's chartered yacht".

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I don’t really have much to say, it’s just one chapter, short and simple, and that’s about it.

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an abandoned snippet from one of the author's published novels, which was later found in the archives amongst various papers. not really a short story, but interesting as something which the author decided to abandon and not include in his novel.
a series the meaningless interactions which can end up meaning more than necessary, having apparently fun on a vacation and using drugs, a slice from the lives of people without many real responsibilities.

short story, kinda

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A small snippet of what could have been the next classic by one of Americas’ finest and most unique writers. Like a shirt story.

Odd but classic Capote.

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