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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... read more
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Quotes edit
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“"'Never mind,' said Randolph, "all difficult music must be heard more than once. And if what I tell you now sounds senseless, it will in retrospect seem far too clear; and when this happens, when those flowers in your eyes wither, irrecoverable as they are, why, though no tears helped dissolve my own cocoon, I shall weep a little for you.'"”
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“"The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common... Let's compare them to a Chinese chest: the sort, you remember, that opens into a second box, another, still another, until at length you come upon the last- the latch is touched, the lid springs open to reveal- what unsuspected cache?"”
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“"It is easy to escape daylight, but night is inevitable, and dreams are the giant cage."”
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
Now a traveller must make his way to Noon City by the best means he can, for there are no buses or trains heading in that direction, though six days a week a truck from the Chuberry Turpentine Company collects mail and supplies in the next-door town of Paradise Chapel: occasionally a person bound for Noon City can catch a ride with the driver of the truck, Sam Radclif.
Themes & Symbolism edit
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Penguin Modern Classics. (publisher edition list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Truman Capote (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1948
ISBN: 039443949X
Page Count: 231
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1948
ISBN: 039443949X
Page Count: 231
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.91
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( C ) › Capote, Truman
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Short Stories › Anthologies
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
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