Provocative and disturbing, Truman Capote’s first published novel is a meditation on how fate can debase youthful expectations. Joel Knox seeks his long-absent father and his own future, but nothing turns out as planned.
Pure magic. Read it, you’ll love American literature (OK at least Capote personally) forever
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Мария Даниловаcompartió una citahace 2 años
"Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everythin, and don't unnerstand nothin, just fullofem,
Nadya Bessonovacompartió una citahace 7 años
On these dangerous evening patrols, Joel had witnessed many peculiar spectacles, like the night he’d watched a young girl waltzing stark naked to victrola music; and again, an old lady drop dead while puffing at a fairyland of candles burning on a birthday cake; and most puzzling of all, two grown men standing in an ugly little room kissing each other.