Summer Crossing by Truman Capote - ISBN: 9780141188584
Paperback
Rebellious debutante, forbidden love, and a summer that changes everything.

Summer Crossing

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  • Paperback

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2006

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Summary

First paperback publication of this recently discovered first novella by Truman Capote.

Grady - beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant - is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced to. A girl to whom people sense something is going to happen…

But her privileged society life of parties, debutantes and dresses leaves her wanting more. And excitement comes in the form of the highly unsuitable Clyde, a Brook…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141188584
ISBN-10:0141188588
Author:Truman Capote
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:1 September 2006
Weight:123g
Dimensions:196mm x 130mm x 10mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
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Critics Review

“Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation.”””-Norman Mailer

“From the Hardcover edition.”

About The Author

Truman Capote

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). Truman Capote died in August 1984.

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