pick"Please, dear, I'm not angry, really I'm not, but you must tell me: what have you done?"
I really enjoyed this distinctly Capote in the writing the story and vibe remind me of Gatsby. The hot NY summer, young people mixing in and out of their socioeconomic classes and getting themselves into trouble, this is a perfect hot day read.
For minutes, like a circulating presence, the sour sweet sweat smell of him stayed in the air, but a trifling breeze passed through the room, taking him with it: so she opened her eyes, lonely.
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I saw this great cover of Truman Capote‘s book at Barnes and Noble this last weekend. @Zoes_Human since you just posted about Breakfast at Tiffany‘s
pickIn true Southern Gothic form, a reader's sense of foreboding is revealed via descriptive verse of scenery and weather. The isolation of the marginalized members of society along and their secrets leave one feeling unsettled. If kumbaya happy endings are what one is looking for then this isn't that book.
bailedHappily, I don't need a lot of pages to realise if I like a book or not. I need more pages to decide id I shall DNF or not. This one didn't make it. Even though it's Capote. But I really don't know what to do with this book. It's so... meh... And, sorry, I don't like how the African Americans are portrayed. Apparently, Capote does criticise slavery, but in this translation it doesn't show. At all. Maybe I'll try the original at some point.
so-soCapote‘s penchant for imagery runs a muck: “a night bird whistled in the fig leaves, a whippoorwill, & fireflies sprinkled the blue flooded air, rode the dark like ship lights.” If you like to read the 1st try of great authors &/or want to know what the Southern Gothic genre is, pick this up. Like many 1st novels, it‘s about love & the writer figuring out himself. The depiction of black life is shocking; it felt like it‘s set in 1848, not 1948.
