It's New York in the 1940s where the martinis flow from cocktail-hour to breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't except of course Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose a heart-breaker a perplexer a traveller a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock department' and one of the shining flowers of American fiction.