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Other Voices, Other Rooms

by Truman Capote

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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 deca...more

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Published February 1st 1994 by Vintage (first published 1948)

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Mar 19, 2008

Rachel rated it

It wasn't until after seeing "Capote" (excellent film, by the by) that I got the itch to read something by the film's namesake. Thus far my first choice, "In Cold Blood," has been checked out every time I've gone to the library, so I settled instead for his first novel, "Other Voices, Other Rooms."

I was not surprised to see the young protagonist, Joel, as a reflection of Capote himself. What did interest me, however, was that in the twenty-fifth anniver...more

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May 07, 2007

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"...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."

"...so few of us learn that love is tenderness, and tenderness is not, as a fair proportion suspect, pity; and still fewer know that happiness in love is not the absolute focusing of all emotion in anoth...more

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May 07, 2007

Robbin rated it

You know Truman Capote's famous quote about how he felt that he and Perry Smith grew up in the same house, and then one day he got up and walked out through the front door, while Perry left out the back? Also, you know the unnecessary speculation that Capote actually wrote his friend Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird? I really enjoyed this book with its odd, closely observed detail and gothic, Southern, open claustrophobia. Still, it kind of feels like this book and To Kill a Mockingbird inc...more

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Aug 16, 2007

Jamie rated it

Eh. I've heard that this is considered his best writing ever. He apparently wrote it at Yalta, while Carson McCullers was staying there. It's the novel that put him on the map. See there I go again, caring more about his bio than his actual writing. The truth is, this might be his 'best' work ever, but it just didn't do it for me. I've read most of what he's written, and none of it has been as interesting as his actual life.

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Oct 18, 2010

Mariel rated it

Recommends it for: You're such a Truuuuuuuu-man

Recommended to Mariel by: Oh capote-y! I love the books that you wrote-y

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Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms is more of a raising yourself through experiences and colored glasses- green, red, rose, purple, the whole over the rainbow spectrum- world views than coming of age. The painful growth into what you think you are, and who you really are. I'm more and more irritated with "coming of age" tag these days, since I can't accept that there's this point where one comes to this point, and then you're done. It's more like stops and starts, backwards and ...moreTruman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms is more of a raising yourself through experiences and colored glasses- green, red, rose, purple, the whole over the rainbow spectrum- world views than coming of age. The painful growth into what you think you are, and who you really are. I'm more and more irritated with "coming of age" tag these days, since I can't accept that there's this point where one comes to this point, and then you're done. It's more like stops and starts, backwards and forwards, all mixed together confusion, isn't it? It can't just be me? We aren't always grown up in memories, anyway, despite that 20/20 hindsight some people supposedly have (it'd help to have Capote's 100% conversational recall). I'm still little, sometimes.

I love this book. I get the feeling that the people I've met who've read Capote don't feel this kinda gratitude that I feel towards him. Like maybe they wanna say, "Dude, Mariel, it's just a book" and back away slowly and then run away as fast as they can. I kinda did raise myself through movies and stories and stuff (probably still do), and I feel strong connections to characters, as if they were real people. I relate to how Joel made up these fictions to get by, like about the deadbeat father, or his dying mama. How he does the same with the new people he meets, most of whom are living their own fictions. All in Capote's humanist way that doesn't care about the bullshit. He sees them without judgement or sorrow. "You do know they aren't real, Mariel?" I've been (to my mind, snottily) asked fairly often. But they are! Someone wrote them. And aha! In the case of Other Voices, Other Rooms, Idabel was based on the same little girl whom Harper Lee based Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird on. Capote and Lee grew up with her. So she is real *smug*. (I'd not have forgotten about this girl either.)

This story is kinda sick feeling in the can't look away possibly impending disaster of the future, and more than in just the southern gothic way of the times that uses background for inherent creepiness (I'm from southern usa so it will either feel like home or trying too hard for me). I'm haunted by this shedding your skins feeling and rejecting yourself, and losing fantasies you made for yourself to hide from ugly realities, and getting lost in the pretensions and ugly realities of those other people, in all those other places. I can understand memories feeling like the sick hot days like these. Hear the doom drumbeats of all those original people doing their thing to their own drums. Watching other people like this. It took me twice as long as the usual coming of age story to not feel skinless. I'm grateful to Capote for writing this book that can relate to that feeling of being lost. And for feeling like we're in together. Yeah, I know it's just a book. I don't care. (less)

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Jan 03, 2012

Kyle Shroufe rated it

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This is my first Truman Capote book read. Although it was almost 2 years ago I remember the book like it was yesterday. The fact that this was his first (actually second 'Summer Crossing') book shocks me because of the maturity and clarvoyence that comes through his writing, his words are a seperate art form that feels as though it's only meant for a select few. Luckily I feel like one of those few because I was automatically drawn to his style of prose and his effectivness in word usage. He can...more

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Aug 12, 2011

Bembo rated it

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Following the death of his mother, thirteen year old Joel Knox travels to Alabama to live with his estranged father in a large, remote and decaying house where also live his step mother and cousin Randolph. He has never meet his father, and it seems upon arrival that he is not likely to meet him soon either, but that is just one of the many mysteries that will trouble young Joel, who is fast beginning to think is move South is at best a disaster, and at worst a betrayal.

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Jul 05, 2010

Jay rated it

“Other Voices, Other Rooms”
by Truman Capote

Book Review by Jay Gilbertson

This is maybe the eighth, could be the ninth time I’ve read this amazing little novel and I know for certain I’ll read it again one day. Billed as Capote’s first, and in my opinion his best work, Other Voices, Other Rooms is truly an amazing piece of literature and still haunts me today.
The author took a classic com...more“Other Voices, Other Rooms”
by Truman Capote

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This is maybe the eighth, could be the ninth time I’ve read this amazing little novel and I know for certain I’ll read it again one day. Billed as Capote’s first, and in my opinion his best work, Other Voices, Other Rooms is truly an amazing piece of literature and still haunts me today.
The author took a classic coming-of-age theme and carefully, subtly and with fascinatingly flawed characters—ripped it to smithereens! The story centers around two powerful topics that Capote struggled with his entire life: the search for a father-figure and the struggle with sexual orientation. What carries this tale is Capote’s brilliant prose and impeccable descriptions of place. He is one of the more rare authors that compel the reader to constantly re-read certain passages not because they’re confusing but due to the incredible picture the author presents of thirteen-year-old, Joel Knox, on the brink of manhood.
Give this a try:
“…He lay there on a bed of cold pebbles, the cool water washing, rippling over him; he wished he were a leaf, like the current-carried leaves riding past: leaf-boy, he would float lightly away, float and fade into a river, an ocean, the world’s great flood.”
With the death of Joel’s mother early on in the story, he is sent off to live with his estranged father in a dilapidated old hotel that, like its occupants, is further sinking into disrepair. From the psychotic step-mother, Miss Amy, to her eccentric cousin, Randolph, to the crusty-cook, Zoo, there isn’t a stereotype left to imagine. Throw in Idabel and Florabel, twins as different as they are alike, and you’ve got a brew of misfits that will surround you with color and sparkle contrasted with loneliness and despair at every turn. One jarring element that any modern reader will find uncomfortable to read is Capote’s use of the ‘N’ word. Though common back when this work was first published, it seems appropriate within the story and adds yet another layer to this complex cast.

Another of the many fascinating characters is not a person, but an old resort called Cloud Hotel. It too is a falling apart place with a history that will burn into your imagination and leave you wanting to know more. Though I’ve read everything Capote ever wrote, it’s this novel I return to because like some poetry, each reading I find some new gem to marvel and wonder about.
Like this clever title-weave-in:
“…But Little Sunshine stayed on: it was his rightful home, he said, for if he went away, as he had once upon a time, other voices, other rooms, voices lost and clouded, strummed his dreams…”
Oh and there’s also a midget and a woman with a huge wart on her chin and a one-armed barber and a cat named Toby. And of course, there’s a woman in the window and you won’t believe who that turns out to be—or perhaps you will.

For more information about the author visit:
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Apr 15, 2010

Jack rated it

I read in the introduction that, when this first came out, a reviewer from the Times wrote something to the effect that the only point of writing this book was for the author to get it out of his system. I think that's about right, I'm not really sure how prejudicially I view that statement, because today, I have the advantage of viewing the book as a stepping stone towards the rest of Capote's body of work. It's interesting to see a young Capote writing his first book with a setting and prot...more

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Mar 08, 2010

Dinayuri rated it

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In this semi-autobiographical novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote, 13-year-old Joel Knox is sent to live with his father after his mother passes away. Joel was abandoned by his father at birth. Therefore when he is not greeted by him until about half-way through the novel, there is great disappointment. All of his questions about his father are ignored and instead, he meets a wide variety of interesting characters that all have engaging stories. Such as Randolph, a transvestite wh...more

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Dec 15, 2009

Kerri Thomas rated it

Truman Capote's novel is so beautifully written that I found it hard to believe it was his first. There is a lyrical, dancing quality to his writing, like sunlight dancing on waves, that carries you along, e.g., 'He lay there on a bed of cold pebbles, the cool water washing, rippling over him; he wished he were a leaf, like the current-carried leaves riding past; leaf-boy, he would float lightly away, float and fade into a river, an ocean, the world's greatest flood.' His descriptions of his cha...moreTruman Capote's novel is so beautifully written that I found it hard to believe it was his first. There is a lyrical, dancing quality to his writing, like sunlight dancing on waves, that carries you along, e.g., 'He lay there on a bed of cold pebbles, the cool water washing, rippling over him; he wished he were a leaf, like the current-carried leaves riding past; leaf-boy, he would float lightly away, float and fade into a river, an ocean, the world's greatest flood.' His descriptions of his characters are just as evocative. Joel, the boy at the centre of the novel, is very lonely, and your heart aches for him as you read the novel. Joel's mother has died and he is sent to live with the father who abandoned him at birth. He has fantasies about this unknown father that verge on heroic but the reality is as far from them as can be imagined. You wish very much that he will find the love that he craves and he does, but from a most unexpected source.
Ruin is a prominent feature of the story. The mansion Joel's family lives in; an abandoned hotel that he is taken to; the nearest town of Noon City; all are well past their prime and descriptions of them, of which there are plenty, evoke a sad feeling of decay and weariness. Quite a few of the characters are also very lonely.
If a novel reveals anything about its author, I would venture to say that Capote had a very low opinion of his fellow humans but at the same time, a great love of them. Both sentiments come through strongly in this book. The book also deals with a theme that, for Capote in real life, would have consumed much of his early years; that of gender and sexual orientation. Joel is described as effiminate and one of my favourite characters, Randolph, is a .... well, I won't give THAT away. It's a great surprise. Idabel, a girl who befriends Joel, is extremely tomboyish, and seems to hate the fact that she is female.
For all its pathos, you will be curiously warmed by this story at the end. It makes you feel it is worthwhile never giving up hope. (less)

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Jan 21, 2012

Nell Grey rated it

Recommends it for: Everyone

Shelves: favourite

Joel has come to a large neglected house in Alabama to live with a father he doesn't know, and the beautifully observed details of the sights, sounds, people and creatures of the nearby town, the house and the surrounding countryside, slowly build to create an almost surreal atmosphere as he tries to find himself and his place in the world. Joel's conflicting emotions are shown with a rare sensitivity, and although there are dark touches throughout, they're of the darkness of dream rather than n...more

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Jul 25, 2011

Nathan added it

I originally picked up this book because it was Capote's first published novel. I was curious to see if it was at all rough or immature. It wasn't.

Capote is as visually captivating as ever. One sentence stuck in my mind: "She tossed the firefly into the air where it hung suspended like a small moon." Simple, vivid imagery.

When I hear a novel described as "coming of age," it often triggers snoring, but this one engaged mostly through characters. The people are kaleidoscop...more

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Feb 16, 2010

Evan rated it

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Capote's short debut novel chronicles the sometimes painful growing up of Joel, a 13-year-old delicate boy sent away from the charms of his aunt's New Orleans home after his mother dies to live in the Alabama backwoods with his long-unseen father, Edward. Joel sees the trip as an adventure but after he arrives nothing seems to happen as he had envisioned or wanted. This is some of the richest, most ornately woven writing in English -- highly alliterative, exactingly described, deeply felt. Capot...moreCapote's short debut novel chronicles the sometimes painful growing up of Joel, a 13-year-old delicate boy sent away from the charms of his aunt's New Orleans home after his mother dies to live in the Alabama backwoods with his long-unseen father, Edward. Joel sees the trip as an adventure but after he arrives nothing seems to happen as he had envisioned or wanted. This is some of the richest, most ornately woven writing in English -- highly alliterative, exactingly described, deeply felt. Capote often captures perfectly the awkward inner confusions of adolescence and the mystery and magic of the world from that POV. Even so, I have to admit, that I found the piece difficult to like, reluctantly turning the pages rather than willingly and enthusiastically doing so. Through much of the elaborate writing, I wanted Capote to get on with the story. For half the book, Capote frustrates the expectations of his protagonist and reader by deliberately keeping the fate of the boy's father a secret. When the secret is revealed, I found it hard to understand why it was necessary to have kept it a secret, other than possibly due to fragile Southern manners and sensibilities. In any case, this slow-moving approach allows Capote some latitude to explore some of the then-unspoken issues of manly identity and repressed gay and bi-sexual desire, in his own autobiographical doppelganger, Joel, and in the guise of a queenly uncle, Randolph, and in Joel's attraction to a neighborhood swamp-rat tomboy, Idabel, who is probably, along with the black housekeeper, Zoo, the most delightfully realized character in the book. The book takes place in a half destroyed, decaying mansion that seems to harbor echoes and ghosts of a livelier past and in a swampy back country rife with legends and freaky shopworn characters. The story often takes odd, surrealistic sidetrips akin to magical realism.
All in all, this is a solid homecoming/coming-of-age/autobiographical work with ample helpings of Southern gothic quirkiness. I can see why it is admired and beloved my many, but there's something about Southern lit and its flighty characters that makes my skin crawl; the region is awash in ignorance and superstition (as reflected by this book's characters) and seems hellbent on continually impeding the progress of the nation. The reason I liked Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood so much is that she cleverly mocks all of that. When all is said and done, it makes me wish that Lincoln and Grant had had nuclear weapons in the Civil War, quite frankly. At least Capote managed to get out of there.(less)

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Nov 24, 2009

Allison added it

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I thought I was going to go the distance with this one, I really did. I made it all the way to page 100 which, these days, is exceedingly far when I'm ambivalent about a book. Where did we go wrong? It's well-written with some beautiful imagery (although the flowery prose did start to grate a bit, and the descriptions/stage directions probably could have been cut in half and still been effective, but if you like ATMOSPHERE, boy, does this book deli...more

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Dec 01, 2010

Kathleen rated it

OK, I read this because I wanted to see the portrait of Harper Lee in the character of Idabel Thompkins, and now I've seen it. I had the vague feeling that I might have read this book before, when I was too young, and that maybe I skimmed parts and missed the significance of certain things. This time I got the significance, probably, still skimmed and still felt vague.

Sorry, Truman Capote, but at least you are dead and not reading my review. I really liked In Cold Blood, OK, but i...more

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Jun 25, 2009

Scott rated it

Ah, back to Capote once again. Other Voices, Other Rooms was the first published novel of Truman Capote. It is difficult to summarize this books other than it tells the story of young boy sent to live with his father after his mother has died. The young man encounters a life where time seems stands still on a decaying plantation in the deep south and each character seems to have more problems than the next one.

This book was groundbreaking when it was published for so many reasons. F...more

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Aug 06, 2010

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Apr 10, 2011

Molly rated it

I'd never read Capote, and I can't say that this book enabled me to form an opinion either way. It's an odd piece of work, though an enjoyable one -- there's a kind of dense, humid mystique that clouds the pages and makes the simple prose feel complicated. The cast of characters is also somewhat predictable: a middle-aged, faded-debutante, Miss-Havisham-inspired eccentric; a closeted Southern dandy with a taste for baroque furnishings; a spiteful, redheaded tomboy with an adoring hound dog and a...more

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Mar 20, 2010

Caitlin rated it

Shelves: 2010

Oh, Truman - what happened to you?

This book is beautifully written, tells a beautiful, bittersweet story, and is a painful read when you think of what its author became. I'm not sure how he made it from the young man that wrote this amazing and beautiful book to the caricatured flaming celebrity-worshiping queen of his later years. In this, his first book, the depth of his talent is enormous and apparent and I finished it thinking of how sad it all makes me.

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Jan 19, 2009

Brianna rated it

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Wrong of me, I'm sure, but I tend to lump a lot of novels that take place in the country in the 1920s or 30s into the "Grapes of Wrath" category.

This is an entirely different book than Steinback's, but the setting still tends to lose me. New Orleans or no New Orleans. I did enjoy most of the book's characters, but felt like we didn't spend enough time with my favourites (Zoo, for instance).

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Jul 15, 2008

J rated it

Recommends it for: Searchers for the post-WWII great American novel

Truman Capote's first novel. It is often summed up by calling it Southern Gothic, which it is in spades. Often it is also remarked how loosely autobiographical this work is, which it also is in spades. Very nice prose, pretty good story, excellent characters. Definitely lacking the brilliance of In Cold Blood, but it is a very different type of book.

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Feb 19, 2010

Joseph rated it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Writer's win our approval in a variety of ways.Truman Capote did it by his masterly use of language.His best works are a veritable "how to" on the use of diction.I doubt there are any who had a better grasp of it.It's not only his use of marvelous visual imagery; it's his sense of rhythm too that is nonpareil.It may be interesting to note Truman wrote the words to the classic Bill Evans piano jazz piece,"A Singing Bee." (I'm not positive about the title, but I remember it di...more

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Jul 05, 2009

Nancy rated it

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Capote is a wonderful writer. I read this book immediately after In Cold Blood. This is kind of a strange story (autobiographical??) about a boy, Joel Knox, who goes to live with his biological father after the death of his mother. His new home is occupied by his step-mother, Amy, her cousin, Randolph, the hired help, Zoo and Jesus. It takes a few days until Joel meets his father and even longer until Randolph tells him the strange backstory. Joel befriends twin girls, Idabel and Florabel; ...more

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Jan 03, 2010

Lauren rated it

Eh...I liked both of the other books I read by Capote...but this one was just kind of strange. I usually enjoy flowery prose and in-depth descriptions of things, and mystery and the hint of the paranormal doesn't normally turn me off, but there were so many things in this book that were left un-resolved, unexplained, and just plain unfinished. I thought that there needed to be another five chapters before I actually would understand where Capote was trying to go with this...and I also thought t...more

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Jul 07, 2008

Angela rated it

i have never read capote before, but for some reason always felt like i would like him (maybe because of Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird).. but so far this book is great... the descriptions bring me back to the old south and it makes me feel at home in some way.. especially up here in the damn north!

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Aug 14, 2010

Jenny rated it

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My copy is an ancient pocket edition with a *fabulous* cover illustration depicting two androgynous youths undressing in the ruins of a weed-engulfed house and what seems to be a portrait of a young, impertinent-looking Capote staring straight off the cover into your eyes. I primarily bought it for the cover art (50 cents!), but I was pleasantly surprised by the content.

It is difficult to mentally travel back in time to an era when Truman Capote was a promising, young upstart, but th...more

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Dec 15, 2009

~*Rachael*~ rated it

Recommends it for: The Lonely Intellectual

I loved parts of this book so much I just want to quote it all!

"... there was always between us something muted, hushed; still our silence was not of a secret kind, for in itself it communicated that wonderful peace those who understand each other very well sometimes achieve ... Yet neither knew the other truly, for at that time we did not really know ourselves."

My favorite lines are from Randolph.

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Jun 25, 2009

Pierce rated it

This was way, way better than I expected. Always had this feeling I wouldn't like Capote, from hearing about In Cold Blood, the first true-crime novel. Which is a format I find distasteful and opportunistic.

But then I read this, and it's a proper, beautiful, dark novel, full of great descriptive Gothic prose.

The first third is quite Kafka-esque (I do not use this term lightly, and apologise for any cringe-reactions) in its confusion and secrecy. The final third is quite dre...more

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Mar 24, 2011

Kris rated it

Whoa! Amazing writing. So descriptive. I hadn't realized Truman Capote was such a wonderful writer. The only thing I'd read before was "In Cold Blood" and I skipped over parts of that... Terrific novel!

Here's a famous quote: "The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's ...more

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Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.

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“The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell. ” — 70 people liked it

“But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.” — 62 people liked it

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