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Other Voices, Other Rooms is a 1948 novel by Truman Capote. [1] It is written in the Southern Gothic style and is notable for its atmosphere of isolation and decadence.
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- 1948
Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a literary touchstone of the mid-twentieth century. In this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel, thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to live with the father who abandoned him at birth.
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Other Voices, Other Rooms is the first published novel of Truman Capote. The book was released in 1948 and is semi-autobiographical; Capote described it as "an attempt to exorcise demons," and drew heavily from his own life (including his childhood friendship with fellow author Harper Lee) in creating the story.
Dec 18, 2007 · 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...
Dive deep into Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion
Written in the Southern Gothic style, famed American author Truman Capote’s first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948), is semi-autobiographical. It stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for nine weeks and was infamous for its suggestive picture of the author.
About Other Voices, Other Rooms. 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.“Intense, brilliant . . . .
