Summer Crossing: A Novel (Modern Library Paperbacks)

ISBN: 0812975936

Author: Capote, Truman

Condition: New

Witness the coming together of Truman Capotes voice, the electric-into-neon blaze that is surely one of the premier styles of postwar American literature.-The Washington Post Book WorldA great breezy read . . . with Capotes trademark wit, but also with genuine youthful awe at the exhilaration of late-forties New York.-New YorkA lost treasure only recently found, Truman Capotes Summer Crossing is a precocious, confident first novel from one of the twentieth centurys 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 shes 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.