TRUMAN CAPOTE said of "Breakfast at Tiffany's," his classic novella of a New York glamour girl, that he was trying to prune his writing style, achieve a more subdued prose. Of course, Holly Golightly became the lodestar to designers as well as to millions of young women who have been enthralled by her single-minded spirit and by the image evoked by Audrey Hepburn in the opening shot of the film, as the cab races up Fifth Avenue and deposits her in front of Tiffany's. Holly is now 50 — as hard as that is to believe. This realization lends a certain poignancy to the many new books in the past year, most of them in the chick-lit category, that have attempted to graft her legend. There are: Lauren Weisberger's "Chasing Harry Winston," Kristen Kemp's "Breakfast at Bloomingdale's," Michael Tonello's "Bringing Home the Birkin" and...
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