Summer Crossing

De: Truman Capote

Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell

The long-lost first novel from literary titan Truman Capote: a razor-sharp account of love and wayward youth in 1940s New York City

“Witness the coming together of Truman Capote’s voice, the electric-into-neon blaze that is surely one of the premier styles of postwar American literature.”—The Washington Post Book World

“A great breezy read . . . with Capote’s trademark wit, but also with genuine youthful awe at the exhilaration of late-forties New York.”—New York

In late 2004, a trove of abandoned documents from Truman Capote’s Brooklyn apartment went up for auction at Sotheby’s. Included in the lot were four notebooks containing the handwritten manuscript of Summer Crossing, which Capote began writing in 1943 and set aside when he turned his attentions into what would be his stunning literary debut, Other Voices, Other Rooms. Since the time of his death in 1984, Capote scholars and biographers had long believed this manuscript gone, never to be recovered.

Set in New York just after World War II, Summer Crossing follows a carefree young 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.

A lost treasure found, Summer Crossing is a precocious, confident first novel that displays the nearly perfect prose and flawless narrative sense of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers.

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation.”—Norman Mailer

Adore him

I'm from the south so may be partial but his writing is poetic and beautiful. Loved Grady!

Beautifully written

Just wish it hadn't ended so soon, it felt a bit unfinished

quality writing

i would have to say Capote is a nice writer. though this is perhaps not his top form, it was very good and there is a quality to his writing that i can't quite define other than to say a smoothness. somewhat a coming of age type story i guess, or young love or rebellion. and i'm always interested to see what items were current culturally at the time, little things you don't think about. I would have to say that, of course it's a completely different type of "novel", but In Cold Blood was a masterpiece and totally riveting. i would go on to more Capote.

Early Capote

A coming of age story for a rich New York girl. Excellent descriptions. Short and sad. Published after Truman Capote's death.

This Book Was Okay

As others have noted, Capote is an excellent writer, and his writing flows easily. I had trouble staying with the story and had to listen to parts over again because I zoned out. The book made me think of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, with a woman is caught in her surroundings.