Other ​Voices, Other Rooms 2 csillagozás

Truman Capote: Other Voices, Other Rooms Truman Capote: Other Voices, Other Rooms Truman Capote: Other Voices, Other Rooms Truman Capote: Other Voices, Other Rooms Truman Capote: Other Voices, Other Rooms

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… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1948

>!
Penguin, London, 2004
192 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780141187655
>!
Vintage, London, 1994
240 oldal · ISBN: 9780679745648
>!
Random House, 1968
232 oldal · ISBN: 9780394439495

Várólistára tette 1


Hasonló könyvek címkék alapján

Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
Fannie Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Alice Walker: The Color Purple
Carson McCullers: Reflections in a Golden Eye
M. L. Rio: If We Were Villains
Carson McCullers: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Flannery O'Connor: The Violent Bear It Away
Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon
Taylor Jenkins Reid: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Kathryn Stockett: The Help