Premium Content Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Window Into the 1950's
By Brook Jolley - August 06, 2003
Truman Capote's masterpiece of American literature, Breakfast at Tiffany's, is a wonderful story about misguided love. The novel is well deserving of a place within any compilation of literature and is epically deserving of a place within a collection of women's literature, as it presents a snapshot of a very human woman from the 1950's era United…
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