Other Voices, Other Rooms (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Truman Capote
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Mid-twentieth century
- Setting: Mississippi
- Principal Characters: Joel Knox, Cousin Randolph, Amy Sansom, Zoo Fever, Idabel, Little Sunshine, Ellen Kendall, Ed Sansom
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Sex or sexuality, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Friendship, Mississippi, Loneliness, Isolation
- Locales: New Orleans, LA, Skully’s Landing
The Story:
Joel Knox was traveling to his father’s at Skully’s Landing. He had never met the man, and after his mother died, had lived with his Aunt Ellen in New Orleans. She treated him kindly, but he felt abandoned. When a letter came from his father asking Joel to come live with him, he wanted to go. Ellen allowed it, saying she loved him and to come back if he became unhappy. On his eventful trip, he met the twin adolescents Idabel and Florabel Thompkins, neighbors to his father.
Joel’s father was ill, and Joel had to wait to meet him. He met Amy, his...
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