Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a literary touchstone of the mid-twentieth century. In this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel, thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to live with the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at Skully’s Landing, the decaying mansion in rural Alabama, his father is nowhere to be found. Instead, Joel meets his morose stepmother, Amy, eccentric cousin Randolph, and a defiant little girl named Idabel, who soon offers Joel the love and approval he seeks.

Fueled by a world-weariness that belied Capote’s tender age, this novel tempers its themes of waylaid hopes and lost innocence with an appreciation for small pleasures and the colorful language of its time and place.

This new edition, featuring an enlightening Introduction by John Berendt, offers readers a fresh look at Capote’s emerging brilliance as a writer of protean power and effortless grace.

杜鲁门•卡波特(Truman Capote)，1924年生于新奥尔良，美国文学史上著名的南方文学作家，曾两次获得欧•亨利小说奖。他自幼父母离异，高中便辍学，受雇于《纽约客》开始写作生涯。代表作品有：长篇小说《别的声音，别的房间》；中篇小说《草竖琴》、《蒂凡尼的早餐》、《夏日十字街头》等；出版于1966年的《冷血》以“非虚构小说”的文体形式开创了美国纪实小说的先河，进一步奠定了其文坛地位；另有《圣诞忆旧集》、《犬吠》、《变色龙的音乐》 等作品集。