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Original Title:	Other voices, other rooms
ISBN:	0679745645 (ISBN13: 9780679745648)
Edition Language:	English

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Truman Capote

Paperback | Pages: 232 pages

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Title	:	Other Voices, Other Rooms
Author	:	Truman Capote
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 232 pages
Published	:	February 1st 1994 by Vintage (first published 1948)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Gothic. Southern Gothic. Literature. LGBT. American

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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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In 1935, at an early age of 11, Capote began writing. The first novel that he attempted to write was Summer Crossing but one day, while he and a fellow southerner and writer Carlson McCullers, the author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940), were walking in the woods, he got inspired to write something about the rural life in the South. So, he set Summer Crossing aside and wrote this book. This then became his first published book (1948) when Capote was 24 years old. The style is Southern



As perplexing as it is captivating, Other Voices, Other Rooms is Capote's hallucinatory literary début, a Southern Gothic bildungsroman based partially on its writer's experience of growing up gay in rural Alabama. The novel wavers between the surreal and the familiar, the obvious and the mystifying; all the while, Capote's ornate language and labyrinthine syntax entrance his reader, inviting them to dwell in a consistently disturbing setting. The plot concerns thirteen-year-old Joel Knox's move

Other Voices, Other Rooms is a coming-of-age novel but I felt there was no real plot or point; I struggled to understand what was happening for half the novel. Id finally feel I got to grips with it and understood what was happening, only to turn the page and feel lost all over again. I feel like this novel was meant to be a profound piece of literature but it felt a bit like Capote tried too hard, tried to be too poetic and mysterious and totally lost me, as a reader, along the way.My favourite

People under the impression the discussion of gender and sexuality is a new thing are so wrong. And this book wasnt some underground gem thats simmered on the back burner, like so much LGBTQ fiction. It makes you wonder if weve gone backward, because this was a huge hit when it was published in 1948, vaulting Truman Capote into the stratosphere. I have loved Truman Capote since the 90s, when I finally read In Cold Blood and The Grass Harp, but I didnt re-read this (which I read in high school

"Other Voices Other Rooms" is at times massively confusing, intensely beautiful, and mystical. Often, all at the same time. Capote's command and use of language and style is unquestionably brilliant, and many times the text reads like poetry. Capote is simply a masterful composer of language. Every word in its rightful place.Capote also has the gift that many writers lack and that is a descriptive prowess that completely surrounds the reader and engulfs them in the world of the text. The first

I read this book years ago and it has always stuck with me. Its so desolate and atmospheric, and filled with strange characters. Everything is ruin and decay with deteriorating plantation houses, a garden thats "a jumbled wreckage," and a paralyzed father. Published in 1948, Other Voices, Other Rooms spent nine weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. It was also groundbreaking for its depictions of gay characters.