num_pages: 235
description: Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a literary touchstone of the mid-twentieth century. In this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel, thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to live with the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at Skully's Landing, the decaying mansion in rural Alabama, his father is nowhere to be found. Instead, Joel meets his morose stepmother, Amy, eccentric Cousin Randolph, and a defiant little girl named Idabel, who soon offers Joel the love and approval he seeks.
language: English
title: Other Voices, Other Rooms
titlecomplete: Other Voices, Other Rooms (Signet Fiction)
genres: Fiction, Southern Gothic, Classics, Gothic, Southern, American, Queer, Literary Fiction, Literature, LGBT
ratings_count: 15325
publisher: New American Library