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.

杜魯門•卡波特(Truman Capote)，1924年生於新奧爾良，美國文學史上著名的南方文學作傢，曾兩次獲得歐•亨利小說奬。他自幼父母離異，高中便輟學，受雇於《紐約客》開始寫作生涯。代錶作品有：長篇小說《彆的聲音，彆的房間》；中篇小說《草竪琴》、《蒂凡尼的早餐》、《夏日十字街頭》等；齣版於1966年的《冷血》以“非虛構小說”的文體形式開創瞭美國紀實小說的先河，進一步奠定瞭其文壇地位；另有《聖誕憶舊集》、《犬吠》、《變色龍的音樂》 等作品集。