Truman Capote Little Bookroom issued a new coffee-table edition of that work, which includes David Attie's previously-unpublished portraits of Capote as well as Attie's street photography taken in connection with the essay, entitled "Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir, With The Lost Photographs of David Attie". This edition was well-reviewed in America and overseas, and was also a finalist for a 2016 Indie Book Award. "Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories" (1958) brought together the title novella and three shorter tales: "House of Flowers", "A Diamond Guitar" and "A Christmas Memory". The heroine of "Breakfast at Tiffany's", Holly Golightly, became one
Truman Capote tape recorder in favor of semi-fictionalized "conversational portraits". These pieces formed the basis for the bestselling "Music for Chameleons" (1980). Capote underwent a facelift, lost weight and experimented with hair transplants. Despite this, Capote was unable to overcome his reliance upon drugs and liquor and had grown bored with New York by the beginning of the 1980s. After the revocation of his driver's license (the result of speeding near his Long Island residence) and a hallucinatory seizure in 1980 that required hospitalization, Capote became fairly reclusive. These hallucinations continued unabated and medical scans eventually revealed that his brain mass had