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      Summer Crossing

      by Truman Capote
      Published
      Nov 2005
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      160
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      "Witness the coming together of Truman Capote's voice, the electric-into-neon blaze that is surely one of the premier styles of postwar American literature."—The Washington Post Book World

      "A great breezy read . . . with Capote's trademark wit, but also with genuine youthful awe at the exhilaration of late-forties New York."—New York

      A lost treasure only recently found, Truman Capote's Summer Crossing is a precocious, confident first novel from one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.

      Set in New York just after World War II, the story follows a young carefree socialite, Grady McNeil, whose parents leave her alone in their Fifth Avenue penthouse for the summer. Left to her own devices, Grady turns up the heat on the secret affair she's been having with a Brooklyn-born Jewish war veteran who works as a parking lot attendant. As the season passes, the romance turns more serious and morally ambiguous, and Grady must eventually make a series of decisions that will forever affect her life and the lives of everyone around her.

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      Historical

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      Jul 2006 Modern Library ISBN13 9780812975932 ISBN10 0812975936
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      Jul 2006 Penguin (UK) ISBN13 9780141188584 ISBN10 0141188588
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      First Edition Oct 2005 Random House ISBN13 9781400065226 ISBN10 1400065224
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      May 2012 Random House ISBN13 9780307822789 ISBN10 0307822788
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      May 2012 Modern Library ISBN10 B007YUAQXU
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      Dec 2005 Random House Audio ISBN13 9780739332719 ISBN10 0739332716
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      Dec 2005 Random House Audio ISBN10 B000CRSF4Y
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      Apr 2006 Thorndike Press ISBN13 9780786284160 ISBN10 0786284161
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