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Truman Capote's first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South. At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully's Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead...
3) Grass harp
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English
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Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits-an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies-who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the sacredness of love, "that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of...
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The hillbilly-turned-Manhattanite at the center of Breakfast at Tiffany's shares not only the author's philosophy of freedom but also his fears and anxieties. Other Voices, Other Rooms begins as thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to rural Alabama to live with his estranged father--who is nowhere to be found.
11) In cold blood
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Powerful re-creation of the brutal slaying of a Kansas family by two young ex-convicts.
Series
Centennial collection volume 5
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
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Description
Holly Golightly, a charming, eccentric New York City playgirl, is determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire until she meets her new next-door neighbor, a gigolo and struggling writer.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In a small Southern town, a teenage girl anxiously waits for her date to arrive. A little boy meets his dream dog in Central Park. A woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lover's eyes. Best friends discuss the theoretical murder of husbands. In these never-before-published stories, written by Truman Capote when he was in his teens and twenties, Capote-the-Writer is already recognizable. His prose: witty, poignant, and crystal-clear....
17) Beat the devil
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
An offbeat tale of adventure and suspense involving the passengers on a steamer who attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a parcel of land in East Africa believed to be rich with uranium deposits.