About this title: At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the mansion in Skully's Landing, his father is nowhere is sight. What he finds instead is a sullen step-mother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Fair. 0679745645 NOTE PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASE! ! MUCH Earlier smaller reading copy only paperback same content exactly-Aside from newer introduction/afterward, the original text has never changed, OLDER Used Condition with cover discoloration, though book is holding together well for it's age, and has tons of age tan. Different cover, No writing or Highlighting, some spine creases, sold for content. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1949
ISBN-13:9780451144638ISBN:0451144635
Description: Good. 1949; Paperback; No notes/hiliting; Clean pages; Cover corner crease; Lightly edgeworn cover; No dog-ears; Strong binding; page 223 has very small dent at top of page; cover is lightly scuffed, soiled, and creased. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1948
Description: Fair. Cover has some skinning and tears, expecially along the corners and spine, where one small tear goes through. Several bends and smudges. Pages are very tanned but unmarked. Book resists opening. We ship within one business day. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. Thank-you for your consideration. read more
Edition: 14th Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet, New York
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Writing in pen on front cover. Spine slightly cocked. Light shelf wear. Solid copy with clean pages. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780679745648ISBN:0679745645
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Has a marker line on the bottom, inside edge. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
""Let me tell you that I was in love. An ordinary statement, to be sure, but not an ordinary fact, for so few of us learn that love is tenderness, and tenderness is not, as a fair proportion suspect, pity; and still fewer know that happiness in love is not the absolute focusing of all emotion in another: one always has to love a good many things which the beloved must come only to symbolize; the true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilac opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all the seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory. A nostalgic list, but then, of course, where could one find a more nostalgic subject.""
"I'm sure this was brilliant, but I'm afraid I kinda didn't get it. It's a beautifully written but dismal and lonely story. The descriptions of the deep south are haunting but so full of forboding as to be constantly unsettling. I found the characters to be quite bizarre and the final scenes to be mystifying. So... I look forward to talking with my book club ladies to figure it all out a bit. I feel like alone I am not up to the intellectual challenge of this particular book, particularly since I never developed a fondness for any of the characters and never felt the desire to make the emotional investment in them or the book."
"Half-way through this book, I loved it. By the time I'd finished it, I wasn't nearly as enchanted. I'm not sure if that says more about me or more about the book, but there it is. In truth, I don't really know what to say about Capote's novel. It's well-written and engaging, but it doesn't seem to go anywhere. After establishing a weird world populated by memorable characters, the book doesn't seem to want to do anything with them. Maybe that's the point, as stagnation seems to be the novel's predominant theme, but as a reading experience, it's far from satisfying.
On a mostly unrelated (and thoroughly unpleasant) note, this is the second book in a row that has ended with a rape."
"This was way, way better than I expected. Always had this feeling I wouldn't like Capote, from hearing about In Cold Blood, the first true-crime novel. Which is a format I find distasteful and opportunistic.
But then I read this, and it's a proper, beautiful, dark novel, full of great descriptive Gothic prose.
The first third is quite Kafka-esque (I do not use this term lightly, and apologise for any cringe-reactions) in its confusion and secrecy. The final third is quite dream-like, the resolution both threatening and a release.
Just really good southern stuff with a wonderful turn of phrase and mysterious, larger-than-life characters.
Also a coming of gay story? Which I didn't explicitly see on reading. But is undeniable thinking back on it."
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