Despite Joel's queries, the whereabouts of his father remain a mystery. He also sees a spectral "queer lady" with "fat dribbling curls" watching him from a top window. Arriving at Skully's Landing, a vast, decaying mansion on an isolated plantation in Mississippi, Joel meets his sullen stepmother Amy her cousin Randolph, a gay man and dandy the defiant tomboy Idabel, a girl who becomes his friend and Jesus and Zoo, the two black caretakers of the home. Plot Īfter his mother's death, 13-year-old Joel Harrison Knox, a lonely, effeminate boy, is sent from New Orleans to live with his father, who abandoned him at birth.
Capote continued work in North Carolina, and eventually completed the novel in a rented cottage in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Capote joined McCullers at the artists' community, Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, New York, and McCullers helped Capote locate an agent (Marion Ives) and a publisher ( Random House) for his project. His budding literary fame put him in touch with fellow southerner and writer Carson McCullers. He left Alabama and continued work in New Orleans. He immediately cast aside his rough manuscript for Summer Crossing and took up the new idea. He began the manuscript after an inspiring walk in the woods while he was living in Monroeville, Alabama.
Truman Capote spent two years writing Other Voices, Other Rooms. It is also noteworthy due to its erotically charged photograph of the author, risqué content, and debut at number nine on The New York Times Best Seller list, remaining on the list for nine weeks. Other Voices, Other Rooms is significant because it is both Capote's first published novel and semi-autobiographical. It is written in the Southern Gothic style and is notable for its atmosphere of isolation and decadence.
Other Voices, Other Rooms is a 1948 novel by Truman Capote.
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