Summer Crossing
by Capote, Truman
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0713999292
- ISBN 13
- 9780713999297
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Allen Lane/ Penguin Classics, 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Uk Edition with 1 indicated as printing. Book has only a small mark on the leading fore edge of note. Jacket has very, very minor shelf wear. Grady - beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant - is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced to. A girl to whom people sense something is going to happen ... But her privileged society life of parties, debutantes and dresses leaves her wanting more. And excitement comes in the form of the highly unsuitable Clyde, a Brooklyn-born, Jewish parking attendant. When Grady's parents leave her alone for the first time in their New York penthouse one summer, their secret affair intensifies. As a heat wave envelops the city, Grady gets in deeper and deeper and cares less about the consequences. Soon, though, she will be forced to make decisions - choices that will forever affect her future once the long, sultry summer comes to an end.
Synopsis
Summer Crossing is Truman Capote's first novel. It was written when Capote was working for The New Yorker. The book was first published in 2005, after it was thought to have been lost for over 50 years: Capote claimed to have destroyed the book, along with several other notebooks of prose, in a fit of harsh self-criticism. The writings had instead been rescued from the trash by the house sitter of an apartment in Brooklyn Heights in which Capote lived in the late 1940s.
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- Bookseller
- The Secret Bookshop (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027911
- Title
- Summer Crossing
- Author
- Capote, Truman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0713999292
- ISBN 13
- 9780713999297
- Publisher
- Allen Lane/ Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- col fic
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