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A lost treasure only recently found, Truman Capote's Summer Crossing is a precocious, confident first novel from one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Set in New York just after World War II, the story follows a young carefree socialite, Grady McNeil, whose parents leave her alone in their Fifth Avenue penthouse for the summer. Left to her own devices, Grady turns up the heat on the secret affair she's been having with a Brooklyn-born Jewish war veteran who works as a parking lot attendant. As the season passes, the romance turns more serious and morally ambiguous, and Grady must eventually make a series of decisions that will forever affect her life and the lives of everyone around her.

142 pages, Paperback

First published October 25,2005
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new york city new york, 

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142 pages, Paperback
Published
June 27, 2006 by Random House Publishing Group
ISBN
9780812975932
ASIN
0812975936
Language
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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Kahirama
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April 26,2025
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''Veći dio života tako je dosadan da nije vrijedan spomena, i dosadan je u svakoj dobi. Kada promijenimo marku cigareta, preselimo se u drugu četvrt, pretplatimo na druge novine, zaljubimo i odljubimo, tada se bunimo protiv dosade svakog života koja se neda rastjerati. Nažalost, jedno zrcalo jednako je varljivo kao i drugo, i u jednom trenutku, u svakoj avanturi odražava isto prazno i nezadovoljno lice.''

''Ne bježi se od ljudi, bježi se od samog sebe''

''Gledati ljubljenu osobu kako spava jedno je od čarobnih iskustava: oslobođen od pogleda i svijesti, na jedan opojni trenutak držiš njegovo srce, potpuno je bespomoćan i koliko god iracionalno bilo, vjeruješ da je on istinski muškarac nježan poput djeteta.''
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TheScarletCutter
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April 26,2025
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Operele cu acțiunea in New York parcă sunt altceva. Mi-a plăcut mult cum scrie Capote, știam câteva detalii despre viața și opera lui din ‘Lebedele de pe Fifth Avenue’, dar încă nu făcusem cunoștință cu lucrările lui. Scurt și complex mi s-a părut acest roman, ușor de citit, cu focus pe descrierile spațiilor, redarea trăsăturilor morale ale personajelor și defectelor naturii umane. Autorul pare că scrie dintr-o revoltă față de înalta societate newyorkeză și face imprevizibilul previzibil.
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Badass_Hole
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Amo il modo in cui Capote racconta la sua New York. Le immagini che crea accostando le parole finemente scelte sono bellissime, come un quadro. Ci sono alcune frasi che sono dei veri e propri gioielli che luccicano, trasmettendo quelle vibrazioni elettrizzanti della Manhattan dell'alta borghesia americana che fa da sfondo alla storia.

Questo romanzo ruota attorno a tre personaggi legati gli uni agli altri, eppure distanti, persi in una incomunicabilità inevitabile. Grady, una diciassettenne testarda e sfavillante, impulsiva e irrequieta, è la figlia di un pezzo grosso della città. Peter è l'amico di una vita, tanto simile a lei quanto dato per scontato. E poi c'è Clyde, così diverso e, per questo, estremamente affascinante agli occhi di lei. Lui viene da Brooklyn, ha origini umili e una grande famiglia moralmente a carico. Grady e Clyde fanno parte di due mondi diversi in perenne contrasto, due pianeti che si scontrano in un moto di ribellione giovanile destinato a terminare in un enorme boato vitale che rimane sospeso in una nube di indefinita incertezza e futuro ignoto.

Giudicato da molti un romanzo imperfetto (primo tentativo di scrittura di Capote che passò la vita nell'indecisione se pubblicarlo o meno; pubblicato solo dopo la sua morte), io non ho fatto caso ai difetti, non sono riuscita a dar loro peso e sostanza, sono rimasta immersa per un centinaio di pagine in un fluido piacevole e avvolgente.

Bello bello.
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FeelinWoozie
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April 26,2025
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Uma leitura muito leve, rápida e concisa. Veio como uma lufada de ar fresco no meio das minhas outras leituras, apresenta-nos num curto espaço de tempo um cenário, uma envolvencia e uma evolução na história muito notável. Com poucas personagens, e muito parecido com o sucesso do autor "Breakfast at Tiffany's" passa-se num ambiente tipicamente Nova-iorquino e mistura várias faixas sociais. Como nos é dado a conhecer no fim isto é uma obra póstuma, um guião muito jovem na escrita de Truman e que embora não esteja perfeito, nos dá um deslumbre do que ele viria a ser, com uma escrita desde já deslumbrante. Recomendo a qualquer um que já tenha lido algo de Truman ou até mesmo para se iniciarem na leitura do autor, embora continue a gostar mais de uma das suas obras primas, o "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
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qualestia
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April 26,2025
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Like Harper Lee, her friend Truman Capote had a book or two that he drafted and then abandoned, this one being the one he never meant to be published.  As with Ms. Lee, someone decided to publish Capote's unfinished business anyway.  It's  short  and quickly  over, so little time to fret over it.

I greatly enjoyed it.  There isn't much plot or character development, but that man knew how to put a beautiful sentence together.  The ending is one I didn't see coming and left me wondering what will happen next, until I realized I knew without a doubt.
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petitwolf
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a lovely little read by young Capote (published posthumously), it was very interesting to see what came before his more famous pieces :)
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"It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy."
"She had liked to be alone, but not, as Lucy accused, to spend her time in listless moping, which is a vice of the highly domesticated, the naturally tame.

Ao que sei, os fãs de Truman Capote não gostam muito desta novela, não só porque a acham inferior ao resto da obra, mas também porque foi publicada postumamente, mas eu fiquei encantada. Uma escrita cristalina e certeira numa história que, não sendo perfeita e tendo personagens algo irritantes, nos faz recuar ao primeiro Verão de liberdade e excessos, sem os pais em casa.
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