TRUMAN CAPOTE was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. With the 1948 publication of Other Voices, Other Rooms, Capote was catapulted onto the international literary scene and for nearly four decades was a fixture in New York literati and high society circles. Twice awarded the O. Henry Short Story Prize, Capote was also the recipient of a National Institute of Arts and Letters Creative Writing Award and an Edgar Award. Among his many celebrated works are the short-story collection The Grass Harp, the novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the memoirs A Christmas Memory and The Thanksgiving Visitor, and the true-crime masterpiece In Cold Blood. Capote died in 1984, just weeks shy of his sixtieth birthday.
Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South.
At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully’s Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face—and heart—of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.
读这本小说,如同透过一只万花筒看向一个小男孩的内心,沿着他绮丽炫异的想象,走进充满声音和色彩的世界。有些小说的可贵之处在于,它提供给你一个自由而阔亮的想象空间。 不断下沉的房子、不断往上长的疯草、不断变幻闪烁的光与影……越接近小说的尾声,越是一切声音一切幻...
評分伦道夫若有所思地说:“……奇怪得很,我对未来一点都不感到激动,很早以前我就意识到我的生命属于别的时代。” “但是我想知道的是未来。”乔尔说。 伦道夫摇摇头……“你没听说过智者的那句话吗?未来完全存在于过去之中。” 也许,智者的话真的是对的。那么多人活在过去之...
評分但愿他能够逃离。 这是在看别的声音 别的房间时一直萦绕在我脑海中的短句。13岁的少年乔尔,天使的面容懵懂混沌的内心,失去相依为命的母亲,投奔杳无音信的父亲。 整个故事将真实用荒诞的白描一一还原升华。乔尔离开原来生长的环境满怀欣喜开启这一场奔赴,而结局是现实扣...
評分这本书再一次说明童年对人的影响有多么持久。里尔克如果看到想必很高兴(他在《给青年诗人的信》里滔滔不绝地说了那么多。) 写这本书的卡波特离童年还不远。借乔尔十三岁的诡异遭遇,他完美地还原了记忆里的声音、光影,甚至气味,像编织一个无边无际、繁复绮丽的梦境。翻...
評分有些人好像天生就具有文学性,比如杜鲁门.卡波特:他首先有个不快乐的童年,然后少年成名,出入富贵圈,然后又被无情地一脚踢出。这样的人生,可以写很多本自传,或者自传体小说。《别的声音》,《别的房间》是他的处女作,但他一直否认这是一部自传体小说,直到小说出版20年后...
很喜歡Randolf這個角色 ; "what are most lives but a series of incomplete episodes? 'we work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Out doubt is our passion, our passion is our task...'"
评分didn't finish. A bit too narcissism for me.
评分didn't finish. A bit too narcissism for me.
评分有好多詩意又美妙的語句,但沒有像書麵簡介中說的什麼intense好不好!!!還有書中一個角色的原型是To Kill a Mockingbird的作者
评分didn't finish. A bit too narcissism for me.
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