The Grass Harp, Truman Capote
The Grass Harp, Truman Capote
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The Grass Harp

Author: Truman Capote

Narrator: Cody Roberts

Unabridged: 10 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/14/2018

Synopsis

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits—an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies—who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the sacredness of love, “that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life.”

This volume also includes Capote’s A Tree of Night and Other Stories, which the Washington Post called “unobtrusively beautiful . . . a superlative book.”

About Truman Capote

Truman Capote was a native of New Orleans, where he was born on September 30, 1924. His first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, was an international literary success when first published in 1948, and accorded the author a prominent place among the writers of America's postwar generation. He sustained this position subsequently with short-story collections (A Tree of Night, among others), novels and novellas (The Grass Harp and Breakfast at Tiffany's), some of the best travel writing of our time (Local Color), profiles and reportage that appeared originally in the New Yorker (The Duke in His Domain and The Muses Are Heard), a true-crime masterpiece (In Cold Blood), several short memoirs about his childhood in the South (A Christmas Memory, The Thanksgiving Visitor, and One Christmas), two plays (The Grass Harp and House of Flowers) and two films (Beat the Devil and The Innocents).

Mr. Capote twice won the O. Henry Memorial Short Story Prize and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in August 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara on August 29, 2021

This collection of Capote short stories and a novella are set in either the rural south or N.Y.C. They were written between the late 40's and early 50's. Some of the characters are children, some misfits, some quirky but all interesting. The novella, The Grass Harp, was one of my favorites. It was te......more

Goodreads review by Lawyer on June 12, 2012

The Grass Harp: Truman Capote on the Sunny Side of the Street "Gonna take a Sentimental Journey, Gonna set my heart at ease. Gonna make a Sentimental Journey, to renew old memories... Never thought my heart could be so yearny. Why did I decide to roam? Gotta take that Sentimental Journey, Sentimental Jo......more

Goodreads review by Rosie on February 04, 2022

Sobre o conto "A Harpa de Ervas": "… Dolly disse assim: Estás a ouvir? É a harpa de ervas, sempre a contar histórias – conhece as de todas as pessoas que ali estão na colina, de todas as pessoas que alguma vez viveram, e que, quando nós morrermos, também vai contar a nossa." Pág. 14 Deparei-me com......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on October 29, 2018

I had not read any Truman Capote because in the seventies, when I became aware of him he had already deteriorated into a Hollywood celebrity writer, which made me automatically assume that he wrote pabulum for the masses. Hence I took him as an author about as seriously as a writer for tabloids. Such......more

Goodreads review by Abyssdancer (Hanging in there!) on December 31, 2021

This review is only about The Grass Harp - I reviewed A Tree of Night separately … Let me start this review with a sigh …. My God, this was a beautiful story … Collin, the narrator, goes to live with his spinster cousins, Verena and Dolly, after both his parents have died … he grows up particularly a......more

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