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Summer Crossing

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Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance she is dangerously pursuing and the effect it will have on everyone involved.

Fans of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Capote’s short stories will be thrilled to read Summer Crossing .

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First published October 25,2005
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December 13, 2005 by Random House Audio
ISBN
9780739332719
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0739332716
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English
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Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.

He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live with his mother and her new husband, Joseph Capote, a Cuban-born businessman. Mr. Capote adopted Truman, legally changing his last name to Capote and enrolling him in private school. After graduating from high school in 1942, Truman Capote began his regular job as a copy boy at The New Yorker. During this time, he also began his career as a writer, publishing many short stories which introduced him into a circle of literary critics. His first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, published in 1948, stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for nine weeks and became controversial because of the photograph of Capote used to promote the novel, posing seductively and gazing into the camera.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Capote remained prolific producing both fiction and non-fiction. His masterpiece, In Cold Blood, a story about the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, was published in 1966 in book form by Random House, became a worldwide success and brought Capote much praise from the literary community. After this success he published rarely and suffered from alcohol addiction. He died in 1984 at age 59.

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September
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April 16,2025
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Capote’s buried first novel. I couldn’t make it into the second half since there doesn’t appear to be a story here, an interesting character, or any particular reason to keep reading another long comma-infested, mid-clause-POV-shifting sentence of upper-class Manhattanite banality. Authors suppress books for a reason. When will publishers learn?
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April 16,2025
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3.5

Since reading Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Capote and finding the prose amazing (second only to Nabokov) I was curious to read more.

Apparently he wrote Summer Crossing at 19, and it was only edited / published after his death.

Even in this early work Capote’s style is obvious. He goes on the usual tangential segways here and there, sometimes at the story’s expense. There are some great paragraphs and sentences in the rough.

If you’re already a fan of Capote, this is worth a read. A quick skimming of his biography is so sad, and I can’t help but feel there are echoes of his life’s future chaos, even in these early pages of his career.

For any aspiring writer, a serious study of Capote’s dialogue will go a long way. What a master.
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Icouto
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April 16,2025
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This may have been the first book he wrote, but it was only published posthumously, so I was pleasantly surprised to find it quite gripping and amusing. Grady is a memorably angry and confused teenage girl. I agree with her entirely: both the blokes leave something to be desired.
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ChairmannVonT
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April 16,2025
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چرا کتابی که به زبان انگلیسی نوشته شده باید توسط یک مترجم از ترجمه آلمانی آن به فارسی برگردانده شود. مگر مترجمان خوب انگلیسی کم داریم؟
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3.5 stars.
Quite short but overall an okay read. I liked the writing style and would definitely want to read Capote’s other works.
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`ما تمام آن ساعت‌ها را در تابستان،از زندگی دزدیدیم`
زبان رمان ساده و بیان آن با توجه به ریتمی که نویسنده با جملات کوتاهش تدارک دیده پرکشش و جذاب است. همانگونه که شخصیت‌ها خواننده را مجذوب خود می‌کنند. «دزدان تابستان» شاید شاهکاری فراموش ناشدنی نباشد، اما هم ارزش خواندن دارد و هم اینکه شخصیت اصلی آن گریدی، این دختر جوان که سودای تجربه کردن عشق در اولین تابستان آزادِ زندگی‌اش را دارد، تا مدتها در خاطر خواننده می‌ماند.
طعم جملات زیر دهان می‌ماند،جملاتی پیچیده اما آراسته از یک نویسنده‌ی ۱۸ ساله که آن را در دهه‌ی چهل و پنجاه نوشته و هیچوقت در طول عمرش آن را لایق انتشار ندانسته اما سال ها بعد از مرگش در سال ۲۰۰۵ دنیا از وجود آن باخبر می‌شود.
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"Arriva sempre un momento in cui ci si domanda, cosa ho fatto?,e per lei era arrivato quel mattino a colazione, quando Apple leggendo ad alta voce la lettera di Lucy, era giunta al punto in cui si parlava dell' abito; dimentica di non averlo voluto affatto, conscia che ormai non l' avrebbe più indossato, aveva scelto le scale di un nuovo e misterioso dolore: cos' ho mai fatto? Il mare le poneva la stessa domanda, e i gabbiani facevano eco al mare. La maggior parte della vita è talmente noiosa che non vale la pena nemmeno di parlarne,e ciò è vero a qualsiasi età.Ogni volta che cambiamo marca di sigarette, traslochiamo in una nuova casa, ci abboniamo a un altro giornale, ci innamoriamo e ci disinnamoriamo, in realtà non facciamo che protestare in modo più o meno frivolo contro l' insormontabile noia della vita quotidiana.Purtroppo però tutti gli specchi sono bugiardi, e a un certo punto, nel bel mezzo di qualsiasi avventura, ci rimandano la solita faccia vuota e insoddisfatta; perciò mentre si domandava cos'aveva fatto,Grady si domandava in realtà cosa stava facendo, come al solito."

Si può dire tutto di Capote , di certo non era un santo, di certo era una gran carogna (nella eccezione positiva del termine naturalmente),ma aveva una capacità di osservazione e comprensione pazzesca...
E la verve del giornalista, solo che era solito osservare sopratutto i difetti, le debolezze, i vizi delle persone e riportarli ...
E questo non ha fatto piacere a più di uno.

Anche in Summer Crossing il piccoletto non si smentisce, e sebbene al suo primo romanzo, già dimostra di saperne una più del diavolo sulle persone...
Protagonista del romanzo è Grady McNail figlia di una delle personalità più illustri e ricche di New York.
Grady è una ribelle a suo modo (non sono d' accordo con chi la paragona alla più tardi Holly Golightly di "Brekfast at Tiffany's" i lati in comune sono davvero molto pochi)si taglia i capelli cortissimi, malgrado il parere della madre, non vuole partecipare al ballo delle debuttanti e sopratutto intrattiene una relazione all' insaputa di tutti con il parcheggiatore ebreo Clyde Manzer,aiutata anche dal fatto di avere casa totalmente libera per un' intera estate (dato che i suoi vanno a Parigi), una specie di gioco per lei, ma dal quale senza nemmeno accorgersene viene risucchiata, fino al inevitabile epilogo finale...

^^ C’era della gioia nei colpi stordenti sferrati dai pugni di Clyde, e mentre l’auto sgommava lungo la Terza Avenue, schivava i pilastri della sopraelevata e ignorava il rosso dei semafori, lei li fissò in silenzio come un uccello intontito dal continuo sbattere contro muri e finestre. Perché quando monta il panico la mente si aggroviglia come il cavo di srotolamento di un paracadute, e allora si continua a precipitare. L’auto svoltò a destra sulla Cinquantanovesima e sbandò sul Queensboro Bridge; sovrastando le rauche sirene del traffico fluviale, in un mattino che per lui non avrebbe fatto cambiare il cielo, Gump gridò: "Dannazione, così ci ammazzi!" senza riuscire a staccare le mani di Grady dal volante, e lei disse: "Lo so".^^
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