The Grass Harp [Paperback]

Truman Capote (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Random House, Inc. (1980)
• ISBN-10: 0676504345
• ISBN-13: 978-0676504347
• ASIN: B001RD1GGG
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925 and was raised in various parts of the south, his family spending winters in New Orleans and summers in Alabama and New Georgia. By the age of fourteen he had already started writing short stories, some of which were published. He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for the New Yorker which provided his first - and last - regular job. Following his spell with the New Yorker, Capote spent two years on a Louisiana farm where he wrote Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He lived, at one time or another, in Greece, Italy, Africa and the West Indies, and travelled in Russia and the Orient. He is the author of many highly praised books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories (1949), The Grass Harp (1951), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), In Cold Blood (1965), which immediately became the centre of a storm of controversy on its publication, Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of which are published by Penguin. Truman Capote died in August 1984.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Great American Novel, March 28, 2001

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This review is from: The Grass Harp: A Play in Two Acts (Paperback)

The Grass Harp is a perfect and beautiful piece of American fiction. I have read this novel at least ten times, and each time it moves me. The language is rich and textured, the characters are real and true, the story is simple and touching. To read Capote is to fall in love with an American South that is no more- a time and place that can only exist in the imagination.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Green, August 16, 2009

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This review is from: The Grass Harp: A Play in Two Acts (Paperback)

Does anyone read Truman Capote anymore? Other than teenagers, I mean, who have seen or heard about "In Cold Blood" and are expecting more? Capote did not write verse, he did not rhyme, but he wrote poetry (when he wrote what he wanted to write). I sat down two days ago with just 15 minutes to indulge, having pulled from the shelf "The Grass Harp" and, again, was captured and envious. Does anyone turn a descriptive phrase as he does? Does any author bring one to tears with his visual descriptions, like a painter as well as a poet? He is not in style now. He is overlooked. When they teach "southern authors", I do not recall seeing his name. Perhaps his later "tabloid" works and lifestyle eclipse him now. I hope it will not always be so. What a wonderful, honest, tender story this is. I hope it will not be lost.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IT WAS AWESOME ESPECIALLY THE CROSSED EYED TWINS ., July 13, 1997

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This review is from: The Grass Harp: movie tie-in edition (Paperback)

I ESPECIALLY LIKED IT WHEN SISTER IDA
CAME INTO TOWN.HER 15 CHILDREN
NEEDED TO APPEAR MORE OFTEN.I WAS IN LOVE WITH THE CROSSED EYED TWIN