Sara's review
Summer Crossing: A Novel (Modern Library Paperbacks)
by Truman Capote
Sara's review
Summer Crossing: A Novel (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Truman Capote
Sara's review
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southern-gothic
After checking out this apparent prototype to the rest of Capote's work, I definitely wanted to move on into some Breakfast territory.
Grady, like Clyde, offers only the leanest peripheral insight into her inner life, causing the reader to view her uncomfortably atop a pedestal. Irony abounds in Grady's childlike insistence for acceptance from those she places beneath her. (To me, she is the complete embodiment of "svelte" :) ) More than a coming-of-age, class-conflict, or sultry beach read, Summer Crossing impressively confronts us, the readers, with our own sense of self-entitlement in regards to our perception of the rest of the world. All that is needed for the most innocent naivete to become the vehicle for reckless self-indulgence, is the conviction that we, as mere individuals, can fell the whole world with our limited understanding of it.
Thanks for lending, Greg!
Grady, like Clyde, offers only the leanest peripheral insight into her inner life, causing the reader to view her uncomfortably atop a pedestal. Irony abounds in Grady's childlike insistence for acceptance from those she places beneath her. (To me, she is the complete embodiment of "svelte" :) ) More than a coming-of-age, class-conflict, or sultry beach read, Summer Crossing impressively confronts us, the readers, with our own sense of self-entitlement in regards to our perception of the rest of the world. All that is needed for the most innocent naivete to become the vehicle for reckless self-indulgence, is the conviction that we, as mere individuals, can fell the whole world with our limited understanding of it.
Thanks for lending, Greg!
