Other Voices, Other Rooms

from Schmerguls

665. Other Voices, Other Rooms, by Truman Capote (read 26 July 1961) Capote spent two years writing this novel. and it was published in 1948--his first published novel. Wikipedia has an article on the book, which will tell you more about it than I can remember, especially since I did no post-read...

from technodiabla

This book is very very Southern, vague, Faulkneresque, and inaccessible. But I really liked it. The South's dark weirdness that can exist without even being questioned is brilliantly captured. My husband and I disagree about the meaning of the ending, but I won't spoil it. I found it horrific, wh...

from CarlaR

This book is Truman's first published and it feels like it. That's not to say that the book was bad in any way, it just didn't feel fine-tuned like his others. The imagery was wonderful, but the characters seem underdeveloped (which seems funny since this is supposed to be semi-autobiographical. ...

from Unkletom

For starters, My thanks to the folks at the On the Southern Literary Trail group for giving me the opportunity to read and discuss this and many other fine books. This is Truman Capote's first novel and it shows, for reasons both good and bad. On the good side, it shows that, even at the tender a...

from amydross

How can I describe it? It's like waking from fevered dreams to find yourself in a bathtub filled with molasses and blood, and flies crawling in and out of your eyes, your nose, the corners of your mouth. It is unpleasant.