The Grass Harp (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Truman Streckfus Persons
- First Published: 1951
- Type of Work: Novella
- Genres: Long fiction, Novella
- Subjects: United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Alienation, Small-town life, Loneliness, Trees, Boys
- Locales: South (U.S.)
The Grass Harp, Capote's sadly humorous tale about a curious collection of small-town southern eccentrics, continued the romantic and occasionally bizarre mood of his earlier Other Voices, Other Rooms, but his emphasis in this work more often is on the possibilities for humor in such strange behavior rather than on shock value. Capote captured the same tone of southern small-town hilarity that one also finds in many of the short stories of Eudora Welty.
Eleven-year-old Collin Fenwick, from whose point of view the work is told, is sent as a young boy by his grieving...
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Truman Capote (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Truman Capote (Dictionary of World Biography)Truman Capote (Long Fiction)Truman Capote (Short Fiction)
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