5 options
Truman Capote's Southern Years : Stories From A Monroeville Cousin, 25th Anniversary Edition / Marianne M. Moates ; with a foreword by Ralph F. Voss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moates, Marianne M. (Marianne Merrill), author.
- Voss, Ralph F., author of introduction, etc.
- Standardized Title:
- Bridge of childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Alabama--Monroeville.
- Authors, American.
- Authors, American--20th century--Family relationships.
- Monroeville (Ala.)--Social life and customs.
- Monroeville (Ala.).
- Capote, Truman, 1924-1984--Homes and haunts--Alabama--Monroeville.
- Capote, Truman.
- Capote, Truman, 1924-1984--Childhood and youth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 25th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Readers are well acquainted with Truman Capote's meteoric rise to fame and his metamorphosis from literary enfant terrible to literary genius, celebrity author, and dispenser of venomously comic witticisms. It is also well-known that he spent his formative years in the south Alabama hamlet of Monroeville, and that he was abandoned there by his mother to be cared for and then to care for elderly relatives. Yet details of those years have remained sketchy and vague. In Monroeville young Capote formed significant bonds and played childhood games with his cousin, Jennings Faulk Carter, and next do
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Acnkowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; Chapter 1. Sook''s Secret; Chapter 2. Miss Jenny''s Halloween Party; Chapter 3. Orange Beach; Chapter 4. Captain Wash and the Hen-and-Chickens Succulent; Chapter 5. The Carnival ; Chapter 6. The Trimotor Ford; Chapter 7. Popguns, Rubber Guns, and Jenny; Chapter 8. The Case of the Mysterious Lady; Photographs follow page 118. ; Chapter 9. Boss; Chapter 10. The White Elephant; Chapter 11. Arch; Chapter 12. The Cotton-Bale Caper ; Chapter 13. Lil George; Chapter 14. Hatter''s Mill; Chapter 15. Broadway; Chapter 16. Broadway, Act II
- EpilogueIndex
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8815-X
- OCLC:
- 889644754
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.