Summer Crossing

Written by Truman Capote

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell

“Witness the coming together of Truman Capote’s voice, the electric-into-neon blaze that is surely one of the premier styles of postwar American literature.”—The Washington Post Book World

“A great breezy read . . . with Capote’s trademark wit, but also with genuine youthful awe at the exhilaration of late-forties New York.”—New York

A lost treasure only recently found, Truman Capote’s Summer Crossing is a precocious, confident first novel from one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers.

Set in New York just after World War II, the story follows a young carefree socialite, Grady McNeil, whose parents leave her alone in their Fifth Avenue penthouse for the summer. Left to her own devices, Grady turns up the heat on the secret affair she’s been having with a Brooklyn-born Jewish war veteran who works as a parking lot attendant. As the season passes, the romance turns more serious and morally ambiguous, and Grady must eventually make a series of decisions that will forever affect her life and the lives of everyone around her.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
• Release date: Dec 13, 2005
• ISBN: 9780739332726

Truman Capote

Truman Capote nació en Nueva Orleans (Luisiana, Estados Unidos). Estudió en el Trinity School y en la St John's Academy de Nueva York. A los 23 años publicó su primera novela, Otras voces, otros ámbitos(1948), en la que relata la búsqueda de identidad de un joven sureño. Es autor de Un árbol de la noche y otros cuentos (1949), El arpa de hierba(1951), Se oyen las musas (1956), Desayuno en Tiffany (1958) y A sangre fría (1966), su novela más famosa, llevada al cine por Richard Brooks en 1967. La película Capote (2005), dirigida por Bennet Miller, traza un retrato agudo del autor mientras se encontraba escribiendo A sangre fría. Capote también ha publicado la colección de ensayos Música para camaleones (1980) y el guion musical Casa de las flores (1954). Colaboró en la adaptación del guion de la película La burla del diablo (1953). Murió el 25 de agosto de 1984 en Los Ángeles.

Reviews for Summer Crossing

[chaito · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

It's a story that was left forgotten, it has its unmistakable style, but it's still short and lacks something. In any case, it's quite a curiosity how it deals with the rich and the poor. (Translated from Spanish)