Summer Crossing is Truman Capote's first novel, slender and tragic. It was written when Capote was working for The New Yorker. The book was first published in 2005, after it was thought to have been lost for over 50 years: Capote claimed to have destroyed the book, along with several other notebooks of prose, in a fit of harsh self-criticism. The writings had instead been rescued from the trash by the house sitter of an apartment in Brooklyn Heights in which Capote lived in the late 1940s.

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  • Summer Crossing is Truman Capote's first novel, slender and tragic. It was written when Capote was working for The New Yorker. The book was first published in 2005, after it was thought to have been lost for over 50 years: Capote claimed to have destroyed the book, along with several other notebooks of prose, in a fit of harsh self-criticism. The writings had instead been rescued from the trash by the house sitter of an apartment in Brooklyn Heights in which Capote lived in the late 1940s. Upon the death of the house sitter, his nephew discovered Capote's papers and sent them to Sotheby's for auction in 2004. After a consultation with Capote's lawyer, "Summer Crossing" was published in 2005. With a free-spirited, touching heroine, Summer Crossing anticipates Capote's beloved creation Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the novel's sparkling wit, shimmering atmosphere and moving denouement show the qualities that made Capote one of America's major writers.
  • Letnia Przeprawa (Summer Crossing) - pierwsza powieść Trumana Capote, którą zaczął pisać w 1943 roku. Została ona wydana już po jego śmierci, w roku 2005. Uważana za zaginioną przez ponad 50 lat, została odkryta wraz z innymi odręcznymi notatkami Capote'a i wystawiona na aukcję w 2004 roku. Capote napisał Summer Crossing kiedy miał zaledwie 19 lat. Gracie - niezależna i urocza bohaterka powieść jest zapowiedzią słynnej Holly Golightly, wykreowanej przez autora w Śniadaniu u Tiffany'ego.
  • «Ле́тний круи́з» (англ. Summer Crossing) — Первый роман американского писателя Трумэна Капоте. Писать «Летний круиз» Капоте начал в 1943 году, когда ему было двадцать лет. В то время он жил в Нью-Йорке и работал в журнале «Нью-Йоркер». Рукопись романа состоит из четырёх тетрадей, заполненных от руки, чернилами, с густой авторской правкой. К автографу прилагаются шестьдесят два листа дополнений. И тетради, и дополнительные листы составляют часть коллекции Фонда Трумэна Капоте в архивно-рукописном отделе зала гуманитарных наук и искусства Нью-Йоркской публичной библиотеки.
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  • Summer Crossing is Truman Capote's first novel, slender and tragic. It was written when Capote was working for The New Yorker. The book was first published in 2005, after it was thought to have been lost for over 50 years: Capote claimed to have destroyed the book, along with several other notebooks of prose, in a fit of harsh self-criticism. The writings had instead been rescued from the trash by the house sitter of an apartment in Brooklyn Heights in which Capote lived in the late 1940s.
  • Letnia Przeprawa (Summer Crossing) - pierwsza powieść Trumana Capote, którą zaczął pisać w 1943 roku. Została ona wydana już po jego śmierci, w roku 2005. Uważana za zaginioną przez ponad 50 lat, została odkryta wraz z innymi odręcznymi notatkami Capote'a i wystawiona na aukcję w 2004 roku. Capote napisał Summer Crossing kiedy miał zaledwie 19 lat.
  • «Ле́тний круи́з» (англ. Summer Crossing) — Первый роман американского писателя Трумэна Капоте. Писать «Летний круиз» Капоте начал в 1943 году, когда ему было двадцать лет. В то время он жил в Нью-Йорке и работал в журнале «Нью-Йоркер».
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