Summer Crossing – Truman Capote

This is one of those cases where the manuscript is discovered after death and published, possibly, against the author’s wishes. In general I am pro-publication in such cases (what’s the harm?), though this is clearly not in the same class as Breakfast At Tiffany’s which it superficially resembles.

An across-the-tracks romance set in NYC, the writing is conspicuously more comfortable in the privileged Upper East Side than it is in down-at-heel Brooklyn, and the overall feel is something like a juvenile F. Scott Fitzgerald.