Larissa's review
Summer Crossing: A Novel (Modern Library Paperbacks)
by Truman Capote
Larissa's review
Summer Crossing: A Novel (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Truman Capote
Larissa's review
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This is one of those books where the back-story itself is almost good enough. Years after he originally wrote this novella (at age 19) in 4 Composition Notebooks (remember those black and white ones that you did all your Important Writing in in middle school?), Capote hastily moved out of his brownstone and asked his Super to throw away anything that he'd left behind in the rush. The detritus included a box containing this manuscript. A neighbor found the box and decided that such a thing should be kept for posterity. Which he did--in his closet--until he died recently. Then his relatives came across the manuscript and sold it to Sotheby's which sold it to the NYPL to house in their Truman Capote collection. And after various arguments about the ethics of publishing that which was intended to be un-published, we now have Summer Crossing in all its colon-happy, run-on sentenced, uber-similied splendor.
It's a sweet story, in its way, although the brassy 17 year old precursor...more
It's a sweet story, in its way, although the brassy 17 year old precursor...more
