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manoma, kad sio romano rankrastis yra dinges, Jis buvo atrastas atsitiktinaiiais, ruosiantis Sotheby's aukcionui, Capote pradejo ji rasytiiais, vis grizdamas prie jo iki pat mirties, bet taip ir nepanores isleisti.
. . Tai trumpas, elegantiskas pasakojimas apie viena jaunos merginos vasara, kuri pakeis viska,
Siaip jau, maniau, kad tai toks lengvas skaitalas, bet tik iki pakutines frazes, istartos Grady.
. . Не е найдоброто от Капоти, но все пак е Капоти, което значи, че хубаво, дори само заради усещането от неговото писане. И пак Ню Йорк, обичам го и него, и Капоти завинаги! I adored this book.
Beautifully written.
Sparkling, poetic, lyrical prose,
Grady is a witty heroine who I loved,
Wonderful setting of's New York,
Although there was an underlying sense of dread as the book reached it's climax!
A little gem of a book which will become a favourite of mine!
So glad it was published.
Summer Crossing: Truman Capote's True First Novel


sitelinkSummer Crossing appears to be Capote's true first novel which he abandoned.
In fact, the manuscript was among papers left in an apartment in the care of a house sitter.
Capote instructed the house sitter to put all papers on the street to be picked up as garbage.
The anonymous house sitter recognized the value of what Capote considered trash, holding on to the caches of papers, including this novel for more than fifty years until his death.


A relative of the house sitter who also recognized the value of the lost Truman papers swiftly carted them off to Sotheby's.
Through Capote's Literary Trust and some negotiation with Sotheby's, the Trust successfully protected the publication rights to all papers.


The sale would be limited to physical possession of the documents, but the purchaser could do nothing by way of publication of any of the documents.
Ironically, not one person bid on the Truman papers, thanks to the legal maneuvering of the Truman Literary Trust.
Today the papers are in their proper place with other known Capote papers at the New York Public Library.
"Summer Crossing" was published inby Random House,

The big question is why didn't Capote want "Summer Crossing" published, Robert Linscott, Capote's editor at Random House told him it was too conventional, that it was good, but it did not reach the level of excellence Capote had achieved with his short fiction.
In fact, Linscott told Capote that any writer could have written it,

Perhaps the deciding factor was Capote's lover's opinion, Jack Dunphy told him that the novel was "thin," a word that sends a chill up the spine of any writer.
Capote told Linscott he had torn the novel up, The further I read in Clarke's biography, sitelinkCapote, the more I become convinced that truth was a very relative word to Capote.
At times, Capote seems to have invented his life story as he went along,

"Summer Crossing" refers to two distinct crossings during a long hot summer in New York.
Lucy and Lamont McNeil are making an Atlantic crossing to see what the Germans have left of their European holdings.


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Crossing on the Queen Mary

Oh, yes.
They're quite wealthy. They have a penthouse apartment onth Avenue, While away, Lucy intends on the finest fashion designers to make their daughter Grady's Debutante dress.


The second crossing is Grady's from adolescent to woman, She is seventeen. Going to Paris is of no interest to her whatsoever, Mrs. McNeil thinks that young Peter Bell is the reason for Grady's reluctance to leave the city for the Summer.
However, Grady only considers Peter her best friend,

Why, oh why, couldn't Grady be more like her older sister Apple, married, with child, nice house, go getter husband Apple, which happened to be the only thing Lucy could eat during her pregnancy, leaves her supposedly older and wiser daughter to look after Grady.
So it goes.

The Second World War is over, New York is an exciting place to be,

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A girl has lots of opportunities,

Being the rebellious sort, Grady falls for Clyde Manzer, a parking lot attendant where she keeps her baby blue convertible Buick, a veteran who bulges with every muscle he built during the war, a full head of wavy black hair, and a way of showing his appreciation for a good looking girl.
Taking a girl to the Central Park Zoo will do it every time,

Clyde invites Grady to meet his family to attend his nephew's bar mitzvah, Oh I didn't tell you he was Jewish And you were wondering where the conflict was coming in.
Let's call it cultural.

Clyde's family can't figure out why he's bringing a shiksa blonde home with him.
Conflict ensues when Clyde's sister Ida invites Clyde's nice Jewish fiancee, Rebecca, over to join the party.
There, that should liven things up, Yes, it sure does.

Clyde moves into Grady's parents penthouse apartment, Hormones and pheromones are erupting left and right, Bodily fluids are exchanged on a regular basis, In that maddening state of love, what's a starcrossed couple to do but go over to Jersey and get married ata.
m.

Then, what should Grady discover but she is PREGNANT! Mother and Father are due back in less than a month!

Apple suggests they call a doctor to fix things.
However, Grady reminds her of a friend they lost who bled to death on a public toilet.


What to do, what to do

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Ladies Home Journal, January,

Yes! Never underestimate the power of a woman! But can this marriage be saved I'm not going to tell you.
You'll just have to read it yourself,

Just know that Grady has many rivers to cross,

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The Queensborough Bridge

You may consider my review a bit flippant.
I suppose it is. Grady's naivete can be grating, But this book is worth the read, Hmmm, this might be considered the first Truman Capote Summer Beach Read!

Here are the halting beginnings of a master observer of human behavior.
Capote was only nineteen when he submitted the draft to Random House, I understand Capote keeping it under wraps, He knew he could do better, But, I daresay, if not for the booze and the drugs, Capote would have returned to this one, one day.
It would have been a helluva book, too, Yet, even in her naivete, I can see the character of Holly Golightly taking shape that would explode from the pages of sitelinkBreakfast at Tiffany's.


In a way it is fitting that "Summer Crossing," a novel Capote did not want published, and sitelinkAnswered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel serve as odd bookends to a remarkable literary life.


This one draws a,rating. Mr. Truman will probably throw a fit in his grave if I tell him that his first novel wasn't nearly as entertaining as Ms.
Novik's. So he is a great writer, I don't doubt that, And for a first novel, Summer Crossing is probably better than most,

Doesn't mean I have to like it, and I didn't, It didn't make sense to me, which is probably more a question of age than of writing.
But the book did nothing to me: I wasn't particularly interested in what was happening, I didn't seem to like the characters or understand their motives, I wasn't shocked, provoked, intrigued, sad or anything.
I would probably have put the book away if it had been any longer, Well, at least now I can say I have read it, and isn't that what reading the classics is all about anyway g What a beautifully imperfect book.
This is Capote's first novel written sometime in thes and not published until, Why the big gap He left his apartment and told his landlord to throw it away.


Thankfully the landlord kept it, Eventually it landed in the hands of Sotheby's for auction, They notified the lawyer in charge of Capote's Trust, He gave the transcript to the New York Public Library, and he also had the book published.


Summer Crossing tells the story of Grady McNeil, a debutante in New York City, as she experiences her first summer in the city instead of going to France with her parents.
It is a love story and a tale of selfdiscovery, While I haven't read Breakfast at Tiffany's I have seen the movie, and this book clearly lays the groundwork for that plot.


It talks about the clash of the classes in New York City and the reality of what those classes meant.
Capote tackles sensitive subjects with beautiful language and care, It is truly a masterpiece of a book despite its obviously unpolished feel,

You must read it, It is short and a very easy read that will keep you turning pages, A great read for the summer, Exactly how much trouble can a filthy rich, spoiled Manhattan teenaged girl get into when her parents leave via ocean liner for summer in Europe Our young lady with impeccable WASP credentials hooks up with a Jewish parking lot attendant from Brooklyn.
Chaos ensues. This sounds like a gradeB movie from the's but the clash of class, the violence, alcohol and drugs are modern and it reads like.
This was the first novel Capote worked on, starting in, but he never felt it was finished.
It was published posthumously, and probably incomplete, in, Capotes buried first novel. I couldnt make it into the second half since there doesnt appear to be a story here, an interesting character, or any particular reason to keep reading another long commainfested, midclausePOVshifting sentence of upperclass Manhattanite banality.
Authors suppress books for a reason, When will publishers learn Shocking ending for seemingly like a romantic comedy, This has more verve and is more direct than his sitelinkBreakfast at Tiffany'sstars, The slow build worked for me, While reading, I was taking this book lightly because I almost always doubt this manuscriptofadeadfamouswriterfoundinthecellar/atticofhishouse thing.
It is either there really is a manuscript but it is unfinished, e, g. , sitelinkSuite Françaisestar or maybe the author did not really want his book to be published.
In either case, the book would only appeal to eager beaver fans of the author,

However, I still prefer Breakfast over this one because this has a thinner plot, less interesting conflicts and fewer memorable characters.
Capote did not want this to be published because he thought that this was "thin, clever, unfelt" Source: Wiki.
After all, this was his first written novel, His first published work that made him known was his sitelinkOther Voices, Other Rooms,

Grady is ay/o girl who decides not to join her parents and sister to the family's annual vacation.
This time, in France. The reason She is eyeing this goodlooking boy who mans the parking lot, She is pretty tall, cropped blond hair, flawless skin so she is not thirsty for attention.
In fact, she foregoes of Peter who is equally handsome and lovable, Grady fancies the parking attendant more whose name is Clyde,

Sounds like a Harlequin book, right Yes, that was the reason why, up to that part halfway of the book, I took it lightly.
You see, I am in this quest of completing all the Capote books, I am his fan and I'd like to be his completist, i, e.

, a reader who has read all of the author's main/published works, This is my second to the last Capote,

But the ending is jawdropping, I did not expect it, I was loving the common local touch of Capote and I thought that this was his version of sitelinkBonjour tristessebecause Capote waswhen he wrote this novel with ay/o as the female main protagonist.
However, Capote is Capote and he is better, in my opinion, than Francoise Sagan and Capote proved it by giving the final punch towards the end of the novel.
Sagan got knocked out. The ending decides the winner,

Nicely done. .