Other Voices Other Rooms
Other Voices Other Rooms
Author: Truman Capote
Desc: 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. From the Hardcover edition.