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Printed when Truman Capote was just twenty-3 years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is just a literary touchstone of the mid-twentieth-century. In this semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story, thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to reside with the daddy who abandoned him at birth. Nevertheless when Joel gets to Skully’s Landing, the rotting estate in rural Alabama, his dad is nowhere found. Alternatively, Joel fulfills his morose stepmother, Amy, odd relative Randolph, and a rebellious young girl called Idabel, who quickly offers Joel the love and acceptance he seeks.Fueled by a global-weariness that belied Capote’s sensitive age, this book attitudes its styles of waylaid expectations and lost purity having an admiration for small joys and the vibrant language of its period and place.This new edition, offering an informative Introduction by John Berendt, offers visitors a refreshing look at Capote’s rising beauty as an author of protean energy and easy grace.From the Hardcover edition.