Other Voices, Other Rooms (Modern Library) - Hardcover

Truman Capote; Introduction By John Berendt

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9780679643227: Other Voices, Other Rooms (Modern Library)

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ISBN 10: 0679643222 ISBN 13: 9780679643227

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2004

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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. This new edition, featuring an enlightening Introduction by John Berendt, offers readers a fresh look at Capote s emerging brilliance as a writer of protean power and effortless grace.Since 1917 The Modern Library prides itself as The modern Library of the world s Best Books . Featuring introductions by leading writers, stunning translations, scholarly endnotes and reading group guides. Production values emphasize superior quality and readability. Competitive prices, coupled with exciting cover design make these an ideal gift to be cherished by the avid reader

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"Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation."
-NORMAN MAILER
"From the Hardcover edition."

"Intense, brilliant . . . . Capote has an astonishing command . . . a magic all his own." --"The Atlantic
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"Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation." --Norman Mailer
"Dazzling." --"Chicago Tribune"

Intense, brilliant . . . . Capote has an astonishing command . . . a magic all his own. "The Atlantic
"
Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation. Norman Mailer
Dazzling. "Chicago Tribune"
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"Intense, brilliant . . . . Capote has an astonishing command . . . a magic all his own." --The Atlantic

"Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation." --Norman Mailer

"Dazzling." --Chicago Tribune

About the Author:

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 memoirs 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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