Other Voices, Other Rooms [Paperback]

Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South.

At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully’s Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face—and heart—of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.

 “Intense, brilliant . . . .  Capote has an astonishing command . . . a magic all his own.” —The Atlantic

“Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation.” —Norman Mailer

“Dazzling.” —Chicago Tribune

TRUMAN CAPOTE was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. With the 1948 publication ofOther Voices, Other Rooms,Capote was catapulted onto the international literary scene and for nearly four decades was a fixture in New York literati and high society circles. Twice awarded the O. Henry Short Story Prize, Capote was also the recipient of a National Institute of Arts and Letters Creative Writing Award and an Edgar Award. Among his many celebrated works are the short-story collectionThe Grass Harp, the novellaBreakfast at Tiffany’s, the memoirsA Christmas MemoryandThe Thanksgiving Visitor, and the true-crime masterpieceIn Cold Blood. Capote died in 1984, just weeks shy of his sixtieth birthday.

JOHN BERENDT is theNew York Timesbestselling author ofMlcd