Name: Dear Mr. Capote
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

Gordon Lish

Gordon Lish's first novel tells the story of a serial killer who wants Truman Capote to write his biography. In the letter the killer writes to Capote, the details of his life and his modus operandi are revealed.

A Novel

Dear Mr. Capote

David, an ordinary, successful husband and father, reveals his secret life as an insane killer, bent on stalking and murdering forty-seven innocent women, one for each year of his life

A man trying his best to tell you about the horrific murders he commited so you can write a novel about them but the confused little child in him keeps spilling out. 

I read this in complete awe, an insane narrative structure disguised in the form of rambling. Plants words and sentences that invoke vague assumptions in your mind from the first page, that later form into paragraphs, which get cut off because of the narrators short attention span, eventually leading into a cyclical structure where all windows promise a separate view into this twisted mind but not only can't he keep his focus between them, he keeps remembering more and more. This constant increase in plot points while nothing really concludes gets very intense, but what really delivers the punch are the pages where he finally gathers his focus and talks about certain things for pages on end. 

It really reads as if the sentences were flowing out of Lish without a second thought but also has an immaculate structure. I can't even begin to comprehend how one goes about creating such work.

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A man trying his best to tell you about the horrific murders he commited so you can write a novel about them but the confused little child in him keeps spilling out. 

I read this in complete awe, an insane narrative structure disguised in the form of rambling. Plants words and sentences that invoke vague assumptions in your mind from the first page, that later form into paragraphs, which get cut off because of the narrators short attention span, eventually leading into a cyclical structure where all windows promise a separate view into this twisted mind but not only can't he keep his focus between them, he keeps remembering more and more. This constant increase in plot points while nothing really concludes gets very intense, but what really delivers the punch are the pages where he finally gathers his focus and talks about certain things for pages on end. 

It really reads as if the sentences were flowing out of Lish without a second thought but also has an immaculate structure. I can't even begin to comprehend how one goes about creating such work.

Dear Mr. Capote A Novel

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