Other Voices, Other Rooms

By Truman Capote

By Truman Capote

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    About Other Voices, Other Rooms

    Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South.

    At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully’s Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face—and heart—of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.

    About Other Voices, Other Rooms

    Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South.
    At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully’s Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face—and heart—of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.

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    Praise

     “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 Truman Capote

    Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to… More about Truman Capote

    About Truman Capote

    Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to… More about Truman Capote

    Product Details

    Paperback
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 01, 1994 | 208 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679745648

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    Published by Vintage
    Dec 18, 2007 | 224 Pages | ISBN 9780307431578

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