false 2287 29 Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, <i>Other Voices, Other Rooms</i> 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&#8217;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.<br><br>Fueled by a world-weariness that belied Capote&#8217;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.<br><br>This new edition, featuring an enlightening Introduction by John Berendt, offers readers a fresh look at Capote&#8217;s emerging brilliance as a writer of protean power and effortless grace.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i> 2222705 1949 Other Voices, Other Rooms (Vintage International) total:1762|5:434|4:660|3:508|2:142|1:18| 1762 6636 2450 159 5 2 false false Fri Mar 30 15:33:51 -0700 2007 Mon May 07 19:52:38 -0700 2007
"...all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved."

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