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The Grass Harp

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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.

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.

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

I read this one only in Japanese,but it has been one of my best storys. I think this is not as perfect as "Other voice,_" but,or therefor,I can feel something that I used to have,and now gone enywhere,from this novel.