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Vintage
February 1994
On Sale: February 1, 1994
240 pages ISBN: 0679745645 EAN: 9780679745648 Hardcover
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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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