Other Voices, Other RoomsBy: Truman Capote Series: Vintage International Truman Capotes first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South. Intense, brilliant . . . . Capote has an astonishing command . . . a magic all his own. The Atlantic At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father