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Other Voices, Other Rooms

(Vintage International)

By Truman Capote

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| Paperback | 9780679745648

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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 fathContinue

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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  • Set at the beginning of 1900 in a forgotten nowhere of the US Deep South. Visonary, fantastic, symbolic, held in tension between death and life in apparent stillness.
    The characters are few -- Joel, Cousin Randolph, Zoo, Idabel, Jesus Fever, Little Sunshine... plus others not directly in the narrati ... (continue)

    Set at the beginning of 1900 in a forgotten nowhere of the US Deep South. Visonary, fantastic, symbolic, held in tension between death and life in apparent stillness.
    The characters are few -- Joel, Cousin Randolph, Zoo, Idabel, Jesus Fever, Little Sunshine... plus others not directly in the narrative "present" but as involved as they were alive in endless interplay. Each has many inner "rooms" wherefrom there is no escape.

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