Summer Crossing

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Capote, Truman 저자(글)

Random House Publishing Group · 2006년 06월 27일

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Truman Capote was a native of New Orleans, where he was born on September 30, 1924. His first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, was an international literary success when first published in 1948, and accorded the author a prominent place among the writers of America's postwar generation. He sustained this position subsequently with short-story collections (A Tree of Night, among others), novels and novellas (The Grass Harp and Breakfast at Tiffany's), some of the best travel writing of our time (Local Color), profiles and reportage that appeared originally in The New Yorker (The Duke in His Domain and The Muses Are Heard), a true-crime masterpiece (In Cold Blood), several short memiors about his childhood in the South (A Christmas Memory, The Thanksgiving Visitor, and One Christmas), two plays (The Grass Harp and House of Flowers and two films (Beat the devil and The Innocents). Mr. Capote twice won the O.Henry Memorial Short Story Prize and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in August 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday. From the Hardcover edition.
Chapter 1 "You are a mystery, my dear," her mother said, and Grady, gazing across the table through a centerpiece of roses and fern, smiled indulgently: yes, I am a mystery, and it pleased her to think so. But Apple, eight years older, married, far from mysterious, said: "Grady is only foolish; I wish I were going with you. Imagine, Mama, this time next week you'll be having breakfast in Paris! George keeps promising that we'll go . . . I don't know, though." She paused and looked at her sister. "Grady, why on earth do you want to stay in New York in the dead of summer?" Grady wished they would leave her alone; still this harping, and here now was the very morning the boat sailed: what was there to say beyond what she'd said? After that there was only the truth, and the truth she did not entirely intend to tell. "I've never spent a summer here," she said, escaping their eyes and looking out the window: the dazzle of traffic heightened the June morning quiet of Central Park, and the sun, full of first summer, that dries the green crust of spring, plunged through the trees fronting the Plaza, where they were breakfasting. "I'm perverse; have it your own way." She realized with a smile it was perhaps a mistake to have said that: her family did come rather near thinking her perverse; and once when she was fourteen she'd had a terrible and quite acute insight: her mother, she saw, loved her without really liking her; she had thought at first that this was because her mother considered her plainer, more obstinate, less playful than Apple, but later, when it was apparent, and painfully so to Apple, that Grady was finer looking by far, then she gave up reasoning about her mother's viewpoint: the answer of course, and at last she saw this too, was simply that in an inactive sort of way, she'd never, not even as a very small girl, much liked her mother. Yet there was little flamboyancy in either attitude; indeed, the house of their hostility was modestly furnished with affection, which Mrs. McNeil now expressed by closing her daughter's hand in her own and saying: "We will worry about you, darling. We can't help that. I don't know. I don't know. I'm not sure it's safe. Seventeen isn't very old, and you've never been really alone before." Mr. McNeil, who whenever he spoke sounded as though he was bidding in a poker game, but who seldom spoke in any event, partly because his wife did not like to be interrupted and partly because he was a very tired man, dunked out a cigar in his coffee cup, causing both Apple and Mrs. McNeil to wince, and said: "When I was eighteen, why hell, I'd been out in California three years." "But after all, Lamont . . . you're a man." "What's the difference?" he grunted. "There has been no difference between men and women for some while. You say so yourself." As though the conversation had taken an unpleasant turn, Mrs. McNeil cleared her throat. "It remains, Lamont, that I am very uneasy in leaving" Rising inside Grady was an ungovernable laughter, a joyous agitation which made the white summer stretching before her seem like an unrolling canvas on which she might draw those first rude pure strokes that are free. Then, too, and with a straight face, she was laughing because there was so little they suspected, nothing. The light quivering against the table silver seemed to at once encourage her excitement and to flash a warning signal
Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance she is dangerously pursuing and the effect it will have on everyone involved. Fans of Breakfast at Tiffany's" and Capote's short stories will be thrilled to read Summer Crossing.
Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance she is dangerously pursuing and the effect it will have on everyone involved. Fans of Breakfast at Tiffany's and Capote's short stories will be thrilled to read Summer Crossing. From the Hardcover edition.
Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance she is dangerously pursuing and the effect it will have on everyone involved. Fans ofBreakfast at Tiffany'sand Capote's short stories will be thrilled to readSummer Crossing. From the Hardcover edition.
Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance she is dangerously pursuing and the effect it will have on everyone involved. Fans of Breakfast at Tiffany'sand Capote's short stories will be thrilled to read Summer Crossing. From the Hardcover edition.
Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance she is dangerously pursuing and the effect it will have on everyone involved. Fans ofBreakfast at Tiffany'sand Capote's short stories will be thrilled to readSummer Crossing. From the Hardcover edition.
"Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation." -Norman Mailer From the Hardcover edition.
"Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation." NORMAN MAILER From the Hardcover edition.
"Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation."" "-Norman Mailer "From the Hardcover edition."
"Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation." -Norman Mailer From the Hardcover edition.

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저자(글) Capote, Truman

1924년 뉴올리언스에서 태어났다. 본명은 트루먼 스트렉퍼스 퍼슨스. 네 살 되던 시절, 부모의 이혼을 겪고 앨라배마 주의 몬로빌에서 성장했다. 이 시절에 하퍼 리(<앵무새 죽이기>의 작가)와 친구가 되었고, 어머니의 재혼으로 '트루먼 카포티'라는 이름을 가지게 되었다. 트리니티 스쿨과 세인트 존 아카데미 등을 다니다가 열일곱이 되자 학교를 그만 두고, 「뉴요커」 지의 사환으로 일했다.

초기 소설들은 여러 잡지에 게재됐고, 1946년에는 오 헨리 상을 수상한다. 첫 번째 소설 <다른 목소리, 다른 방(other voices, other rooms)>(1948)은 동성애를 다루는 방식 때문에 큰 반향을 일으켰다. 카포티는 이 시기에 유망한 젊은 작가로, 또 날카롭고 재치있는 언변으로 사교계 파티를 누비는 명사로서 이름 높았다. 유럽으로 건너간 그는 말론 브란도의 전기를 비롯하여 연극과 영화, 뮤지컬을 썼다.

미국으로 돌아와 집필한 작품 <티파니에서 아침을(breakfast at Tiffany's)>은 블레이크 에드워즈 감독, 오드리 헵번 주연의 동명 영화로 만들어졌다. 이후 상업적인 성공을 거둔 단편 '크리스마스의 추억'을 비롯하여 여러 작품들을 발표했다. 1984년 캘리포니아 로스앤젤레스에서 사망했다.

기본정보

ISBN	9780812975932 ( 0812975936 )
발행(출시)일자	2006년 06월 27일
쪽수	160쪽
크기	134 * 204 * 12 mm / 141 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어