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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.

At the age of 12, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully's Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face - and heart - of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.

©1948 Truman Capote; copyright renewed 1975 by Truman Capote (P)2018 Tantor Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Gothic Horror Literary Fiction Short Stories Scary Heartfelt
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This book and what others call strange transported me to bliss. Such beautiful writing and an ability to express thought and emotion so originally. Cody Robert’s narration deserves an award.

Brilliance

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I decided to stop listening after a few chapters as the incidences of casual animal cruelty woven through the story were quite disturbing.

Contains descriptions of animal cruelty.

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Engaging and intriguingly strange. Narrator has a beautiful voice but read at times, as if one sentence ran into the next.

Strange, poetic, grotesque

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A strange story which I did not find hugely engaging. Great sense of deep south. Powerful characterisation.

Very good narration

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Great character names but let down by florid language. I’d read Truman Capote’s more famous works In Cold Blood + Breakfast At Tiffanys, and was curious about this. To my taste, it was let down by overly florid descriptions, and a sense of hunting for oddness in the characters. The best of it was the mid narrative monologue about a doomed love affair, told by a jaded, debonair and intellectual aesthete.

Great character names but let down by florid language

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