**"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.