Summer Crossing
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| Author | Truman Capote |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novella |
| Publisher | Penguin |
| Released | 2005 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) & e-book, audio-CD |
| Pages | 138 pp (Paperback edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-141-18858-8 (Penguin Paperback edition) |
[edit] Overview
"Summer Crossing" is Truman Capote's first novel, first published in 2005, after it was thought to have been lost for over fifty years. It had been discovered along with a trove of undiscovered Capote writings that had been delivered to Sotheby's for auction in 2004. The writings had been donated by the nephew of a house sitter of an apartment in Brooklyn Heights that Truman had inhabited in the late 1940s. The novel was written when the author was just nineteen years old. With its free-spirited, touching heroine, the novel anticipates Capote's beloved creation Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's and it's sparkling wit, shimmering atmosphere and moving denouement show all the qualities that made him one of America's greatest writers.
[edit] A Note on the Text
The first edition of "Summer Crossing" was set from Truman Capote's original manuscript, which was written in four school notebooks and sixty-two supplemental notes, archived in the New York Public Library's Truman Capote collection.
[edit] Synopsis
Grady - beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant - is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced to. A girl to whom people sense something is going to happen.
But the privileged society life of parties, debutantes and dresses leaves her wanting more than her parents and conventional sister Apple have in mind for her. Excitement comes in the form of the highly unsuitable Clyde, a Brooklyn-born, Jewish parking attendant. And when Grady's mother and father leave her alone for the first time in their New York penthouse one summer, their secret affair intensifies. As a heatwave envelops the city, Grady gets in deeper and deeper and cares less and less about the consequences. Soon, though, she will be forced to make decisions - choices that will forever affect her future once the long, sultry summer of 1945 comes to an end.
| Works by Truman Capote |
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| Novels: Summer Crossing · The Grass Harp · The Thanksgiving Visitor · Other Voices, Other Rooms
Breakfast at Tiffany's · Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel |
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