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Other Voices, Other Rooms [Large Print] (Hardcover)

by Truman Capote (Author)
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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. Joel's desolate, ugly world is brilliantly presented through Whitman's throaty voice. His vocal characterizations present various ages, social backgrounds and sexual identities. Even during narrative sections Whitman evokes the personalities of the characters. This adds cogency to the vivid descriptions. With masterful insight Peter Whitman captures Capote's murky intensity and his great talent. D.J. An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling novel of the south, Mar 28 2006
This review is from: Other Voices, Other Rooms (Paperback)
Joel Knox is the main character in this riveting and compelling novel of the South. It’s probably the most “true” of all of Capote’s works—based mostly on his life as a child in Alabama. This is, probably, one of the most perfect books, second only to IN COLD BLOOD which IS the most perfect. Some have likened OTHER VOICES to McCuller’s THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, but I don’t take to that comparison. This is much more Gothic and more completely formed than HUNTER. Published in January 1948 and Capote's second novel (but the first to reach print), this still engaging work was a sensation and best seller that year and has been in print ever since. Like Capote himself, it's one of a kind. A misfit young boy, Joel Knox, the product of a broken home (as was Capote), travels from New Orleans to the backwater town of Noon City, Mississippi in search of his unknown father. After twelve years of separation, his father has supposedly written to Joel's loving aunt in New Orleans and wants Joel back. But Joel, longing for his father's love, finds himself in the decaying hothouse home of his stepmother, Miss Amy, and his clever and perverse cousin Randolph, their black "maid" Zoo, and Zoo's ancient father Jesus Fever. Joel's father is in the house too, but not in the form he anticipated. Two local girls, Florabel and the wild tomboy Idabel, round out the players and are Joel's allies in a threatening world of perversity, mental instability, and sexual ambiguity. Even though he was just 23 when he finished this work, Capote displays tremendous inventiveness, narrative talent, and over-the-top imagery. A coming-of-age story, this work gushes southern atmosphere and contains, in Capote's own words, "a certain anguished, pleading intensity like the message stuffed in a bottle and thrown into the sea." It also is semi-autobiographical, "an attempt to exorcise demons," although Capote claimed many years later that he was unconscious of this when he wrote it. On another level, this work is also about the elusive search for the father, and the discovery that one is all alone, seeking to feel that "everything is going to be all right." As a post-war novel, OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS found an audience longing for the same thing, seeking the safety of a benevolent father in a perverse world, and wanting to grow up and find itself. The only other novel that I enjoyed this much (though it is totally different, yet at the same time Capote-like) was Jackson McCrae’s KATZENJAMMER (Soon to be a major motion picture) with its twists and turns.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is it, Jun 2 2004
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This review is from: Other Voices, Other Rooms (Paperback)
Forget what you've heard about IN COLD BLOOD being the number one Capote book. It isn't. OTHER VOICES is and should always be the thing he is rememberd for. While not a large book, it is, by most literary stands, almost perfect. Sure, it's Gothic, but then that's what the South is about, and consider too when he wrote it. It's really a coming of age tale, with more insight and twists than you'd expect from someone as young as Capote was when he wrote it. Of all the works by this great author, this is the first one you should tackle. Also, try reading it with its companion book, THE BARK OF THE DOGWOOD by Jackson McCrae.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Why?, Mar 4 2004
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This review is from: Other Voices, Other Rooms (Paperback)
Why this book isn't better known is beyond me. It is Capote's best work and it is one of the few complete and satisfying books on the market, even if it was written decades ago. The story is told by a child narrator (think Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, or McCrae's BARK OF THE DOGWOOD) and we follow the story as he allows us to. The characters are just brilliant and well-developed without pages and pages of background. I read somewhere that the critics blasted Capote for his "Gothic" book, so many years ago when it came out. One example of things they had trouble with was a red tennis ball that the ill father used to drop down the stairs when he wanted to communicate with the others in the house. How is that gothic? At any rate, this is a concise book that is perfect in form, length, and content. Please, please, please do youself a favor and add this to your list of "must haves."

Also recommended: Gerald Clarke's bio on Capote and McCrae's Bark of the Dogwood--a tour of Southern homes and gardens.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Please, stop reviewing books just to see your name online!
If you randomly selected a pretentious literary critic with a lot of time on his hands and pages from obscure novels that people only read to say that they've read them, added a... Read more
Published on Nov 26 2002

4.0 out of 5 stars Southern Gothic 101
If you randomly selected pages from Poe's short stories and those from Faulker's novels and threw them into the cauldron over which the witches of Macbeth preside and had them... Read more
Published on Oct 4 2002 by Daniel Myers

4.0 out of 5 stars A moving coming-of-age tale
Truman Capote's novel "Other Voices, Other Rooms" opens with the main character, 13-year old Joel Harrison Knox, traveling to the home of his long-estranged father. Read more
Published on Aug 16 2002 by Michael J. Mazza

4.0 out of 5 stars It's Southern Literature
I read this book to find our how its dead mule, John Henry, came to hang himself off the balcony with a spittoon tied to his leg. Read more
Published on Feb 23 2002 by Donna T. Brumby

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent book! Truman Capote is a genius
I'm almost finished reading Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Room, and I must say that this is the best book I have read in a long time. Read more
Published on Aug 21 2001 by Princess23

4.0 out of 5 stars Tangible prose that reaches out to grab hold of the senses.
Capote's first novel written at the age of 23 showed his genius from the start. The beguiling story of a youth who comes to live with family long forgotten; he is initiated into... Read more
Published on Jul 24 2001 by Denise Bentley

4.0 out of 5 stars A riveting examination of the heart
An infinitely complex novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a riveting examination of the often disturbing human heart. Read more
Published on Jun 6 2001 by Zach Goldfarb

3.0 out of 5 stars The road to happiness isn't always a highway
Joel travels to a tiny town in Louisiana to meet the father he's never seen. It's a languid, very Southern story of a lonely young boy figuring out his place in the world, and the... Read more
Published on Mar 19 2001 by blissengine

3.0 out of 5 stars A wandering searcher
Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms" tells the story of a young New Orleans man sent to live with his mysterious father in rural Alabama. Read more
Published on Jan 10 2001 by Adam Rust

2.0 out of 5 stars A Let Down
Truman Capote is one of my favorite writers, but I thought this book had none of the life and charm of his other books. The writing is too self-conscious. Read more
Published on Aug 24 2000

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