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Summer Crossing is the second novel written by American author Truman Capote. He started the novel in about 1943 and worked on it intermittently for several years before putting it aside. Capote's manuscript came to light almost 20 years after Capote's death and the novel published in 2005.
- Truman Capote
- 2005
Oct 16, 2005 · Summer Crossing. By Truman Capote. October 16, 2005. Truman Capote at thirty-one, in 1955, twelve years after writing his newly discovered first novel, “Summer Crossing.” Photograph by Richard...
May 23, 2012 · SUMMER CROSSING, Capote's early effort in the novel format (1946; pub. 2006) offers an elegant, compassionate anatomy of love's sorrows and pleasures (the latter, oh so brief) as the working class mingles with high society in 1946 Manhattan (and Brooklyn).
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A lost treasure only recently found, Truman Capote’s Summer Crossing is a precocious, confident first novel from one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. Set in New York just after World War II, the story follows a young carefree socialite, Grady McNeil, whose parents leave her alone in their Fifth Avenue penthouse for the summer.
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Oct 25, 2005 · A lost treasure only recently found, Truman Capote’s Summer Crossing is a precocious, confident first novel from one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. Set in New York just after World...
Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance she is dangerously pursuing and the...
Set in New York just after World War II, the story follows a young carefree socialite, Grady McNeil, whose parents leave her alone in their Fifth Avenue penthouse for the summer. Left to her own devices, Grady turns up the heat on the secret affair…
