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Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

3.0

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This is Capote's debut novel, and it certainly shows. Other Voices, Other Rooms is beautiful but in many ways feels like an "imitation novel", with the author struggling to define his own voice and themes. However, Capote's genius shines through the pages like a prophecy, it is unstoppable, pouring through his mesmerizing descriptions and sentences so appealing they leave you starved for more. I love that he removed the overt hallucinatory symbolism and decided to ground himself in realism afterwards, with just enough distortion here and there to suggest something mystical.