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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100451156404
ISBN-139780451156402
eBay Product ID (ePID)122862972
Product Key Features
Book TitleOther Voices Other Rooms
Number of Pages1 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1949
TopicGeneral, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorTruman Capote
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight8 Oz
Item Length1 in
Item Width1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisPublished 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. Book jacket.