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'In Cold Blood' is my only previous experience with the writing of Truman Capote. I thought that book was superb, so I had high expectations for this first novel of his, published when he was only 23 years old. Initially, I was loving the descriptive prose, but after a while it started feeling overwritten, forced. And this story of young Joel Knox desperately seeking love and acceptance, and the disparity between his expectations of the reunion with his father and the reality of it, and the woe upon woe upon woe, were sad and dark for me. Many of the supporting characters, and the house where Joel is sent to live, are downright creepy. Such is the nature of Southern Goth, I guess - though I'm no expert. There's no question Truman Capote could write, and I plan to read 'The Grass Harp' and 'Breakfast At Tiffany's,' but goodness gracious, this was a strange read.