Author: Truman Capote
- Fiction
- Debolsillo
- ISBN: 978-6073114172
- Release Date: 07-16-2013
Synopsis
Otras voces, otros ámbitos reveló al mundo el genio de Truman Capote. La novela está habitada por personajes inolvidables: Amy, obsesionada con la idea de la caridad y la beneficencia; las mellizas Idabel y Florabel; Randolph, el visionario alucinado y homosexual; Jesús Fiebre y Pequeño Luz de Sol, dos viejos hechiceros negros; Joel, el niño en el umbral del adolescente que vive desvelado por imágenes entrevistas. Todo un mundo misterioso y deslumbrante comparece ante nuestros ojos, toda una historia. Truman Capote, que tenía veintitrés años cuando la novela fue publicada, demuestra en Otras voces, otros ámbitos una madurez artística difícilmente equiparable.
Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a literary touchstone of the mid-twentieth century. 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.Fueled by a world-weariness that belied Capote's tender age, this novel tempers its themes of waylaid hopes and lost innocence with an appreciation for small pleasures and the colorful language of its time and place.This new edition, featuring an enlightening Introduction by John Berendt, offers readers a fresh look at Capote's emerging brilliance as a writer of protean power and effortless grace.
