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Also by Truman Capote:

Portraits and Observations, October 2007
Hardcover
Summer Crossing in 1943, October 2005
Hardcover
In Cold Blood, March 2002
Hardcover (reprint)
Other Voices, Other Rooms, February 1994
Hardcover
In Cold Blood, February 1994
Paperback (reprint)
Breakfast at Tiffany's, September 1993
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A Christmas Memory, September 1989
Hardcover

OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS
By: Truman Capote

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

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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