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- Truman Capote's Southern Years, 25th Anniversary Edition: Stories from a Monroeville Cousin
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
summary
Celebrates Marianne M. Moates’s insightful and detailed account of Truman Capote’s early childhood in Alabama as recounted by his cousin Jennings Faulk Carter
Readers are well acquainted with Truman Capote’s meteoric rise to fame and his metamorphosis from literary enfant terrible to literary genius, celebrity author, and dispenser of venomously comic witticisms. It is also well-known that he spent his formative years in the south Alabama hamlet of Monroeville, and that he was abandoned there by his mother to be cared for and then to care for elderly relatives. Yet details of those years have remained sketchy and vague.
In Monroeville young Capote formed significant bonds and played childhood games with his cousin, Jennings Faulk Carter, and next door neighbor, Nelle Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Go Set a Watchman." Through the tales told by Carter and spun into a fascinating and revealing narrative by Marianne M. Moates readers discover in Truman Capote's Southern Years the lively imagination and the early tragedies of a brilliant child.
A new foreword by Ralph F. Voss underscores the enduring relevance of Truman Capote’s work and the influence his Alabama childhood had on his work.
Readers are well acquainted with Truman Capote’s meteoric rise to fame and his metamorphosis from literary enfant terrible to literary genius, celebrity author, and dispenser of venomously comic witticisms. It is also well-known that he spent his formative years in the south Alabama hamlet of Monroeville, and that he was abandoned there by his mother to be cared for and then to care for elderly relatives. Yet details of those years have remained sketchy and vague.
In Monroeville young Capote formed significant bonds and played childhood games with his cousin, Jennings Faulk Carter, and next door neighbor, Nelle Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Go Set a Watchman." Through the tales told by Carter and spun into a fascinating and revealing narrative by Marianne M. Moates readers discover in Truman Capote's Southern Years the lively imagination and the early tragedies of a brilliant child.
A new foreword by Ralph F. Voss underscores the enduring relevance of Truman Capote’s work and the influence his Alabama childhood had on his work.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xii-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. 19-41
- 1. Sook's Secret
- pp. 42-50
- 2. Miss Jenny's Halloween Party
- pp. 51-64
- 3. Orange Beach
- pp. 65-72
- 5. The Carnival
- pp. 83-97
- 6. The Trimotor Ford
- pp. 98-106
- 7. Popguns, Rubber Guns, and Jenny
- pp. 107-115
- 10. The White Elephant
- pp. 150-163
- 12. The Cotton-Bale Caper
- pp. 173-185
- 13. Lil George
- pp. 186-193
- 14. Hatter's Mill
- pp. 194-202
- 15. Broadway
- pp. 203-213
- 16. Broadway, Act II
- pp. 214-223
Additional Information
ISBN
9780817388157
Related ISBN(s)
9780817358051
MARC Record
OCLC
889644754
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2014-08-29
Language
English
Open Access
No