Other voices, other rooms /

Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.

Other voices, other rooms / by Truman Capote. - 1st Vintage international ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 2012. - 187 pages ; 21 cm.

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.


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Boys--Fiction.
Adolescentes --Ficción
Friendship--Fiction.
Amistad--Ficción
Stepmothers--Fiction.
Mothers--Death--Fiction.
Madres --Ficción--Muerte


Southern States--Fiction.


Bildungsromans.

PS 3505 / C246o 2012

813/.54