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Truman Capote: OTHER VOICES OTHER ROOMS - first edition, author's first book
Capote, Truman: OTHER VOICES OTHER ROOMS
New York: Random House, 1948. First edition. Capote?s first book.
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."--Capote
Throughout his career, Truman Capote remained one of America's most controversial and colorful authors, combining literary genius with a penchant for the glittering world of high society. Though he wrote only a handful of books, his prose styling was impeccable, and his insight into the psychology of human desire was extraordinary. His flamboyant and well-documented lifestyle has often overshadowed his gifts as a writer, but over time Capote's work will outlive the celebrity.
In his mid-teens, Capote was sent to New York to live with his mother and her new husband. Disoriented by life in the city, he dropped out of school, and at age seventeen, got a job with THE NEW YORKER magazine. Within a few years he was writing regularly for an assortment of publications. One of his stories, "Miriam," attracted the attention of publisher Bennett Cerf, who signed the young writer to a contract with Random House. Capote's first book, OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS, was published in 1948. OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS received instant notoriety for its fine prose, its frank discussion of homosexual themes, and, perhaps most of all, for its erotically suggestive cover photograph of Capote himself. From pbs.org
Very Good with Near Fine jacket. Boards aging. Half-title badly glued to FFE. Corners bumped. Dust jacket lightly edge worn with one closed tear, some soil.
$175.00
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