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What We Said
The book was chosen after the release of the movie "Capote" which generated a heightened awareness and curiousity of Truman Capote and his works. A very different book than the true-crime masterpiece In Cold Blood, Other Voices, Other Rooms offers an alternate form of genius. Set in a mouldering mansion by the edge of a swamp with a ghostly face at a curtained window and a lonely boy seeking the answer to a long-buried secret, this a masterful creation of a time, a place and a mood. It's filled with mystery, sexual ambiguity and gushes southern atmosphere. The writing is spectacular. The plot is thin and open to various interpretation, but we all enjoyed (some more than others) this literary trip to the deep south.
- Sue
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Maca, 1/7/2010
It's a most wonderful book that I've ever read
After I finished it I couldn't belive what I've just read...I was terrified that those kind of caracters exist in the real world...this is my favorite book.
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About Truman Capote
Truman Capote was a native of New Orleans, where he was born on September 30, 1924. His first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, was an international literary success when first published in 1948, and accorded the author a prominent place among the writers of America's postwar generation. He sustained this position subsequently with short-story collections (A Tree of Night, among others), novels and novellas (The Grass Harp and Breakfast at Tiffany's), some of the best travel writing of our time (Local Color), profiles and reportage that appeared originally in The New Yorker (The Duke in His Domain and The Muses Are Heard), a true-crime masterpiece (In Cold Blood), several short memiors about his childhood in the South (A Christmas Memory, The Thanksgiving Visitor, and One Christmas), two plays (The Grass Harp and House of Flowers and two films (Beat the devil and The Innocents).
Mr. Capote twice won the O.Henry Memorial Short Story Prize and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in August 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.
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Selected Works by Truman Capote
- In Cold Blood
- Other Voices, Other Rooms
- The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & The Thanksgiving Visitor
- Summer Crossing : A Novel
- The Grass Harp
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From the Publisher
Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a literary touchstone of the mid-twentieth century. In this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel, thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to live with the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at Skully's Landing, the decaying mansion in rural Alabama, his father is nowhere to be found. Instead, Joel meets his morose stepmother, Amy, eccentric Cousin Randolph, and a defiant little girl named Idabel, who soon offers Joel the love and approval he seeks.
Fueled by a world-weariness that belied Capote's tender age, this novel tempers its themes of waylaid hopes and lost innocence with an appreciation for small pleasures and the colorful language of its time and place.
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