Other Voices, Other Rooms (Vintage International) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Other Voices, Other Rooms (Vintage International) Friday, September 18 2009.

• Now a travelertraveller 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.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Other Voices, Other Rooms (Vintage International) Friday, September 18 2009.

• Now a traveler 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.

Timothy Gray approved Alin G.’s request to combine 3 books, including Other Voices, Other Rooms (Vintage International), Friday, September 18 2009.

Alin G. submitted a request to combine 3 books, including Other Voices, Other Rooms (Vintage International), Thursday, September 17 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Other Voices, Other Rooms (Vintage International) Friday, July 31 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Other Voices, Other Rooms (Vintage International) Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Truman Capote: (Primary Author)