Truman Capote

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Isabella Agostino

Dreamy. A bit frightening. Evocative. I’d like to live in his weary yet tender description of the south.

Monicap

A good freind of mine recommended this to me as his favorite book. The writing was beautiful, but I found the pacing rather slow for my taste, and this really isn't the sort of book I'd naturally gravitate to. This one's just not for me.

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 is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face—and heart—of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.

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Jade Flynn

It's a shame that the plot didn't live up to some of the best writing I've ever come across in literature. 
Regardless of the lacklustre plot the setting of a Gothic and dilapidated southern mansion was perfect as perfect could be.

Akanksha Chattopadhyay

Quite a difficult book. 3-4 stars for now.

Martha F.

Sonia Grgas

Basia

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Andrew Louis

Aaron McCollough

Jacob Mishook

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Katie Galvin

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Emily K McCullar

Sofia Collodel

Mary Coggins

Alethea Stoltzfus

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