Other editions of book Summer Crossing

Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance she is dangerously pursuing and the effect it will have on everyone involved.Fans of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Capote’s short stories will be thrilled to read Summer Crossing.

Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance she is dangerously pursuing and the effect it will have on everyone involved.Fans of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Capote’s short stories will be thrilled to read Summer Crossing.

Grady - beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant - is the sort of girl people stare at across a room the daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced to a girl to whom people sense something is going to happen ... but her privileged society life of parties, debutantes and dresses leaves her wanting more and excitement comes in the form of the highly unsuitable clyde, a brooklyn-born, jewish parking attendant when grady's parents leave her alone for the first time in their new york penthouse one summer, their secret affair intensifies as a heat wave envelops the city, grady gets in deeper and deeper and cares less about the consequences soon, though, she will be forced to make decisions - choices that will forever affect her future once the long, sultry summer comes to an end

Rear case notes: "In late 2004, a trove of Truman capote's abandoned papers went up for auction at Sotheby's. Included in that lot was the handwritten manuscript of SUMMER CROSSING, a novel Capote began writing in 1943, and continued to tinker with on and off for a decade. Since the time of his death in 1984, Capote scholars and biographers had long believed this manuscript lost, never to be recovered. They were wrong. Set in New York just after World War II, SUMMER CROSSING is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady McNeil, whose parent leave her alone in their Fifth Avenue penthouse for the summer. Left to her own devices, Grady turns up the heat on the secret affair she's been having with a Brooklyn-born Jewish war veteran. As the season passes, the romance turns more serious and morally ambiguous, and Grady must eventually make a series of decision that will forever affect her life and the lives of everyone around her. SUMMER CROSSING is a precocious, confident first novel that displays the flawless narrative sense of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Its immaculate turns of phrase, hard irony, and insight into the subtleties of class distinction will point to Capote's future triumphs. Worthy of a spot on any reader's Capote bookshelf, this is, in every sense, a treasure found."