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Title: Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote ISBN: 0-679-74564-5 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.26 (27 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A riveting examination of the heart
Comment: An infinitely complex novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a riveting examination of the often disturbing human heart. One of Capote's most obscure novels, the book is difficult to comprehend as it is read. It takes great effort to move from page to page trying to find the patterns in the ambiguous and suggestive imagery. However, on completing on the novel and thinking about it, one finds that Other Voices, Other Rooms is a gift to literature. Nobody can agree on what Capote was actually insinuating, but what we can all agree on is that when one reflects on the novel as a whole, one is very likely to think about one's life in a different way. A must read for a serious reader.
Rating: 3
Summary: A wandering searcher
Comment: Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms" tells the story of a young New Orleans man sent to live with his mysterious father in rural Alabama. Joel Knox is a tender, slight boy who is eager to make a good impression on the dad he has never known. When he gets to the "Landing," a falling apart plantation, nothing is as it seems or as he had imagined it. His father is nowhere to be seen, and there are ghosts and other devices of his imagination that scare young Joel.
Gradually Joel takes a lesson about life from this place. His youthful notions are replaced by an awareness of coming to terms with the more complex vagaries of real life. He learns to accept things for what they are instead of waiting for them to live up to his dreams.
In the prologue of the 20th anniversary edition, Capote says that when he wrote this book he didn't believe that it came from autobiographical inspiration. With hindsight, he calls his statement laughable and arrogant. This seems like an honest realization, because the book seems like a logical extension of the imagination of someone like Capote. He wrote this book when he was only 24, and in his later years his life did take on somewhat of a fantastic perspective.
I really enjoyed In Cold Blood, his greatest nonfiction. This book wanders. I read that it was similiar to "The Heart is A Lonely Hunter," which is true in that it concerns a collection of lonely sad souls. But it lacks the character development of McCuller's book. It never gets as deep as I had hoped. At best, its valuable as a window into the pysche of the author.
Rating: 5
Summary: This is it
Comment: Forget what you've heard about IN COLD BLOOD being the number one Capote book. It isn't. OTHER VOICES is and should always be the thing he is rememberd for. While not a large book, it is, by most literary stands, almost perfect. Sure, it's Gothic, but then that's what the South is about, and consider too when he wrote it. It's really a coming of age tale, with more insight and twists than you'd expect from someone as young as Capote was when he wrote it. Of all the works by this great author, this is the first one you should tackle. Also, try reading it with its companion book, THE BARK OF THE DOGWOOD by Jackson McCrae.
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Title: The Grass Harp by Truman Capote ISBN: 0679745572 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Answered Prayers : The Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote ISBN: 0679751823 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & The Thanksgiving Visitor by TRUMAN CAPOTE ISBN: 0679602372 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 12 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote ISBN: 0679745661 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote ISBN: 0679745653 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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