{"product_id":"summer-crossing-paperback-1","title":"Summer Crossing - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTruman Capote\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A great breezy read . . . with Capote's trademark wit, but also with genuine youthful awe at the exhilaration of late-forties New York.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA lost treasure only recently found, Truman Capote's \u003ci\u003eSummer Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e is a precocious, confident first novel from one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTruman Capote was a native of New Orleans, where he was born on September 30, 1924. His first novel, \u003cb\u003eOther Voices, Other Rooms\u003c\/b\u003e, was an international literary success when first published in 1948, and accorded the author a prominent place among the writers of America's postwar generation. He sustained this position subsequently with short-story collections (\u003cb\u003eA Tree of Night\u003c\/b\u003e, among others), novels and novellas (\u003cb\u003eThe Grass Harp\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eBreakfast at Tiffany's\u003c\/b\u003e), some of the best travel writing of our time (\u003cb\u003eLocal Color\u003c\/b\u003e), profiles and reportage that appeared originally in \u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003cb\u003eThe Duke in His Domain\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Muses Are Heard\u003c\/b\u003e), a true-crime masterpiece (\u003cb\u003eIn Cold Blood\u003c\/b\u003e), several short memiors about his childhood in the South (\u003cb\u003eA Christmas Memory, The Thanksgiving Visitor, and One Christmas\u003c\/b\u003e), two plays (\u003cb\u003eThe Grass Harp\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eHouse of Flowers\u003c\/b\u003e and two films (\u003cb\u003eBeat the devil\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Innocents\u003c\/b\u003e). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMr. Capote twice won the O.Henry Memorial Short Story Prize and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in August 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 8.02 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 27, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47260148236537,"sku":"9780812975932","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/K50RLSG_mi9780812975932_fed41e3b-9be6-4341-9313-e956609d3ccb.webp?v=1768778559","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/summer-crossing-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}