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Summer Crossing
A Literary Fiction Novel by Truman Capote
Subgenres:
- Post-World War II,
- New York City,
- Coming-of-Age
This book is for you if you're into...
- Postwar New York high society clashing with working-class grit
- Young women making risky choices in sweltering city summers
- Romances that push against family expectations and social boundaries
Witness the coming together of Truman Capote's voice, the electric-into-neon blaze that is surely one of the premier styles of postwar American literature.
A lost treasure only recently found, Truman Capote's Summer Crossing is a precocious, confident first novel from one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.
Set in New York just after World War II, the story follows a young carefree socialite, Grady McNeil, whose parents leave her alone in their Fifth Avenue penthouse for the summer.
Left to her own devices, Grady turns up the heat on the secret affair she's been having with a Brooklyn-born Jewish war veteran who works as a parking lot attendant.
As the season passes, the romance turns more serious and morally ambiguous, and Grady must eventually make a series of decisions that will forever affect her life and the lives of everyone around her.
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