23 JANUARY 1988, page 40

Reflections On A Golden Boy

Patrick Skene Catling A CAPOTE READER by Truman Capote Hamish Hamilton, £15.95 I n 1970 when he was 55 Truman Capote wrote 'I'm an alcoholic,' in a boastfully confessional,......

Scene Of The Crime

Inside that house a wounded man is dying. Of aluminium was the building built: Its window-frames were made triangular to counterbalance an intrinsic tilt. A thin snow flutters......