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Article: "Summer Crossing" offers glimpse of youthful Capote.(Daily Break)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- February 5, 2006
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Byline: BILL RUEHLMANN
HERE'S THE opening line of a yarn:
"You are a mystery, my dear," her mother said, and Grady, gazing across the table through a centerpiece of roses and fern, smiled indulgently: yes, I am a mystery, and it pleased her to think so.
Here's the opening of another yarn:
The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there."
Two yarns, one writer. The first is pretentious, the second portentous. There were a couple of decades between them. The writer was Truman Capote, and the difference is control.
Even in a gifted performer, ...