Book review: Leila Guerriero’s The Difficult Ghost wrestles with Truman Capote’s legacy

By Leila Guerriero
Non-fiction/Pushkin Press/Paperback/152 pages/$22.21

Award-winning Argentine journalist Leila Guerriero’s creative non-fiction exploration of Truman Capote begins with an intriguing premise: tracing fragments of the flamboyant American writer’s presence in Costa Brava, Spain, where he spent three years crafting his 1966 “non-fiction novel”, In Cold Blood.

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