Truman Copete

Following the death of his mother, thirteen year old Joel Knox travels to aluminum to live with his estranged father in a large, far and decaying house where also live his step mother and full cousin Randolph. He has never meet his father, and it seems upon arrival that he is not likely to meet him soon either, but that is just unrivaled of the many mysteries that will trouble adolescent Joel, who is fast showtime to think is move South is at best a disaster, and at worst a betrayal.

But he finds friends in the form of a neighbour the rough and ready younker tom boy Idabel, in Zoo the discolour help, and a black hermit who works charms. But he is also pull to homosexual cousin Randolph; and his somewhat girlish good looks intrigue him to most of those he meets.

Other Voices, Other Rooms is a beautiful story, as much from the way it is told as its content, abstruse in unusual and imaginative metaphors that create a awkward atmosphere of the hot South; subtle in its mental picture of the coming Joels awareness of homosexuality; and full of insight - it is a most moving and captivating read, all the more remarkable considering the young age of its author, his first book.





This Penguin Classics 2004 edition contains an interesting invention by John Berendt which adds much to our understanding of the novel, not to the lowest degree of which is its autobiographical content.

Truman Capotes Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) begins with a pre-teen boy arriving to move in with the father he never knew, hoping to repeal going to military school. In a sense its the corresponding premise as Ricky Schroeders 1980s sitcom Silver Spoons. Unfortunately for Joel, the young protagonist of this novel, he does not find his father to be an affable man-child who drives a train around his mansion. In fact, Joel does not find his father at all until more than halfway through the novel, Mr. Samson being mysteriously inexplicable at his own home at Skullys Landing.

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