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Original Title: Other voices, other rooms
ISBN: 0679745645 (ISBN13: 9780679745648)
Edition Language: English

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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.


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Title:Other Voices, Other Rooms
Author:Truman Capote
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 232 pages
Published:February 1st 1994 by Vintage (first published 1948)
Categories:Fiction. Classics. Gothic. Southern Gothic. Literature. LGBT. American

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I read this many years ago, and remember liking it, but not much else. I suppose I considered it well written, and wanted to read everything Capote had done, as I really loved IN COLD BLOOD, and was fascinated by the little man with the squeaky voice that I saw on television. In interviews, he was fearless, and said the most shocking things he could think of, because he loved the attention.This time around though, I think it's one of the saddest things I've ever read. Semi-autobiographical, it's

**Tangentially related to my Murder by Death project explained here. (The "tangential" part is mentioned below.)**What in the hell did I just read? I guess this is a bildungsroman of sorts, but it's missing the bil and sroman, and you can see what we're left with. A very strange book. I heard that the character of Idabel was based on Truman Capote's real life childhood friend Harper Lee, and that Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird was based on Truman. It all sounded like fun, so I checked it out. Now

Other Voices, Other Rooms: Capote's Swamp Baroque Concerto in Three MovementsOther Voices, Other Rooms was an attempt to exorcise demons, an unconscious, altogether intuitive attempt, for I was not aware, except for a few incidents and descriptions, of its being in any serious degree autobiographical. Rereading it now, I find such self-deception unpardonable.--Truman Capote, The Dogs Bark, New York, Random House, 1973 First Edition Having just re-read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, I

Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms" is a beautiful, creative, delectable novel. In short, it is like a magnificent and diverse banquet that overwhelms all your senses. This is the book, his first book at the age of 24, that immediately shot him to literary and international fame.It is lyrical, enchanting, spiritual, haunting, and at times it hinges on the supernatural. The writing at times is so effortless that it reminded me of Byron (a super high compliment), at other times so

Truman Capote's first published novel, under contract to Bennett Cerf at Random House, was this OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS (1948). Capote had already had some success as a short-story writer, and the novel is fairly accomplished for an otherwise young author. Essentially it's a mixture of allegory, message and Southern Gothick. (Spoilers will follow): The allegory is most easily seen in following young Joel Knox from the unnamed big city (which could be nothing but New Orleans) to the hinterland,

Why is it that when I find a book worthy of five stars I'm at a loss for words, and can't write anything sensible about it? Well, let's just say that I fell head over heels with Capote after this one. One hundred percent more skill than his friend Harper Lee. The way Capote uses words is simple yet it creates a strong sense of place. The lack of plot doesn't really matter for me personally, because there's everything I could ever need from a Southern Gothic novel. Eccentric characters, ambiguous

In 1935, at an early age of 11, Capote began writing. The first novel that he attempted to write was Summer Crossing but one day, while he and a fellow southerner and writer Carlson McCullers, the author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940), were walking in the woods, he got inspired to write something about the rural life in the South. So, he set Summer Crossing aside and wrote this book. This then became his first published book (1948) when Capote was 24 years old. The style is Southern

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