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Title	:	Summer Crossing
Author	:	Truman Capote
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 142 pages
Published	:	September 28th 2006 by Modern Library (first published October 25th 2005)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. American. Romance

Summer Crossing Paperback | Pages: 142 pages

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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. Left to her own devices, Grady turns up the heat on the secret affair she's been having with a Brooklyn-born Jewish war veteran who works as a parking lot attendant. As the season passes, the romance turns more serious and morally ambiguous, and Grady must eventually make a series of decisions that will forever affect her life and the lives of everyone around her.

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Original Title:	Summer Crossing
ISBN:	0812975936 (ISBN13: 9780812975932)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Grady McNeil, Clyde Manzer, Peter Bell
Setting:	New York City, New York,1945(United States)

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What a beautifully imperfect book. This is Capote's first novel written sometime in the 1940s and not published until 2004. Why the big gap? He left his apartment and told his landlord to throw it away.Thankfully the landlord kept it. Eventually it landed in the hands of Sotheby's for auction. They notified the lawyer in charge of Capote's Trust. He gave the transcript to the New York Public Library, and he also had the book published.Summer Crossing tells the story of Grady McNeil, a debutante

Two decades after Capote's death, along came Summer Crossing, his unpublished first novel, written when he was barely out of his teens. It was supposedly left behind in his abandoned Brooklyn flat after the huge success of In Cold Blood. In the afterward of this book there is uncertainty as to whether he wanted it published at all. In 2005 after Philip Seymour Hoffman portrayed Capote quite brilliantly, there was a surge in reading him again, so it's unsurprising that the deceased author's

I can easily say this is definitely the best book I've ever read that was rescued from a trash can (Confederacy of Dunces was under his bed, right?). This was a novel Truman abandoned in 1943 to write his debut Other Voices, Other Rooms. After his success with In Cold Blood he moved out of his Brooklyn apartment for Manhattan instructing the remaining contents of his apartment be put out on the curb for collection. The Super salvaged a box full of papers that included this manuscript. Nobody

DNF. Good writing but I was bored out of my mind. I just could not care enough for spoiled brat Grady so whatever disaster she was about to ensue on and the consequences thereof had no effect on me.

There is no other writer like Truman Capote. Simple, poetic phrases and characters that are hard to forget. 'Summer Crossing' is very unique among other Capote's works - it is his first and at the same time last novel, published years after his death, nearly ten years ago. It's different, fresh and mesmerizing. It will grab your heart and won't let go hours after the book is finished. Capote's story at its essence.

There something about Truman Capote's voice that's just captivating. Atmosphere. And in Summer Crossing, 1940s New York comes to life with an easy eloquence. You can feel what the characters feel, whether you understand them or not.This short novel takes place one summer in the sweltering heat of New York City. Seventee-year-old socialite Grady McNeil's parents have gone to Europe, leaving her home alone. And alone, she can carry on her affair with war veteran parking lot attendant Clyde Manzer.

This novel, whose manuscript was accidentally found and published posthumously, is from a chronological point of view, Truman Capote's very first novel.Why did not young Truman publish this initiatory tale written in his youth?The style of writing is already audacious and poetic. The author marries in turn the initiatory quest, the social tragedy and the intimate drama. He shows great finesse in the psychological analysis of the characters.This novel exudes edgy sensibility that moves. It lacks,