OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS

Capote, Truman

Published by Random House, New York, 1948

About this Item

First edition of Capote's first published novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a isolated and lonely young boy growing up into self-understanding in an atmosphere of Southern grotesquerie and decayed grandeur. Capote's brilliant debut was greatly assisted by Harold Halma's famously fetching dust jacket author photograph, in which the 23-year-old author reclines like an odalisque, whipping critics into an absolute frenzy of adjectives by his "brazen performance" of "the passive, effeminate, foppish gay man" (Richards). Truman Capote on a couch: a "kind of teen-age, marzipan Peter Lorre in a tattersall vest" (Gloria Steinem), "blond bangs dangling over his forehead, full lips moist and pouting" (Eric Noden), a "slim, exotic-looking faun." A book worthy of its back cover. 8'' x 5.25''. Original grey-green cloth. Grey topstain. In original unclipped ($2.75) dust jacket designed by Sal Immerman. 231, [1] pages. Owner name in pencil to first leaf. Light wear and toning to boards, offsetting to endpapers. Jacket lightly scuffed, with some toning to spine and rear panel, small closed tear to lower spine with tape repair to verso. Very good plus in very good jacket. Seller Inventory # 50905

Bibliographic Details

Title: OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS

Publisher: Random House, New York

Publication Date: 1948

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition