Kurzbeschreibung

Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

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 effect it will have on everyone involved.

Fans of Breakfast at Tiffany`s and Capote`s short stories will be thrilled to read Summer Crossing.

Beschreibung

Set in a heat-struck New York after World War II, Summer Crossing tells the story of the young socialite, Grady McNeil, who rebels against the dresses, debuts and eligible young bachelors her family have planned for her. As her parents make a summer crossing to France to check on their war-damaged villa, leaving Grady their Fifth Avenue apartment, she stokes up a secret affair she is having with a Jewish war veteran who works as a parking lot attendant. Grady makes a crossing of her own to an altogether more difficult social experience as she makes some dangerous choices which ultimately have disastrous consequences for herself and those who love her.

Grady is a stylish and defiant heroine, drawn with masterful sympathy, and reminiscent of Holly Golightly. Summer Crossing offers insights into Truman Capote's developing literary style, but it is also an absorbing story in its own right, exhibiting the exquisitely balanced prose and insights into the psychology of human desire for which he became famous.

Truman Capote wrote Summer Crossing aged barely twenty. He abandoned the manuscript in 1966 when he left his humble Brooklyn apartment - along with its contents - after the success of his journalistic novel In Cold Blood. His housesitter rescued a cache of documents from the pavement outside the apartment and these eventually came up for auction in Sotheby's, New York, in 2004. The novel, which scholars and biographers had feared lost since Capote's death in 1984, was handwritten in four school notebooks, and heavily corrected in his hand.

Klappentext

Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925. He is the author of many highly praised books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories (1949), The Grass Harp (1951), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), In Cold Blood (1965), which immediately became the centre of a storm of controversy on its publication, Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of which are published by Penguin. Truman Capote died in August 1984.