CAPOTE, Truman.

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Other Voices, Other Rooms. First edition, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. The novel, Capote's first, stayed on the New York Times best-seller list for nine weeks despite controversy surrounding Capote's provocative pose on the rear panel of the dust jacket. This led to allegations of homosexuality, and, as his biographer comments, "his photograph... probably caused more comment than his prose" (Clarke p. 158).Capote had already published several short stories, and the book was hugely anticipated before its release; Random House ordered an initial print run of 10,000 copies, a large amount for a first novel. It was unintentionally autobiographical, with Capote later writing that it "was an attempt to exorcise demons... An unconscious, altogether intuitive attempt, for I was not aware, except for a few incidents and descriptions, of its being in any serious degree autobiographical" (quoted in Clarke, p. 150).

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