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Summer Crossing

Truman Capote

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English
Penguin Classics
01 September 2006
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 Brooklyn-born, Jewish parking attendant. When Grady's parents leave her alone for the first time in their New York penthouse one summer, their secret affair intensifies. As a heat wave envelops the city, Grady gets in deeper and deeper and cares less about the consequences. Soon, though, she will be forced to make decisions - choices that will forever affect her future once the long, sultry summer comes to an end.
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Imprint:   Penguin Classics
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
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Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   126g
ISBN:   9780141188584
ISBN 10:   0141188588
Series:   Penguin Modern Classics
Pages:   160
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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), all of which are published by Penguin. Truman Capote died in August 1984.

Reviews for Summer Crossing

"""Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation."""" ""-Norman Mailer ""From the Hardcover edition."""


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