Book Review Capote In Kansas
October 3, 2008 by Tracy
Filed under Book Reviews
WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT
Truman Capote and Harper Lee were children when they met. Twenty-five years later, Capote had taken New York’s literary world by storm, while Lee struggled to put pen to paper and sweat out the story of her childhood in the same city.
They would reunite in the desolate plains of Kansas to create In Cold Blood. And they would start talk of an even greater mystery: What happened between them — and who really wrote To Kill a Mockingbird? How did two innocents from a backwoods Southern town achieve such fame, and why did they stop speaking to one another?
Kim Powers has conjured a death-bed confession from Capote, in which he picks up the phone to Harper Lee one last time to tell her is being haunted — a tale she doesn’t believe, until she is forced to. What do the ghosts of the Clutters want, as they appear one by one to confess their secrets and their anger to the most unlikely mediums of Capote and Lee?
Capote in Kansas is an unforgettable “what might have been” — a fantasia of ghosts seeking resolve and revenge, and memories and regret for a past that was, that will never be again.
THE PICTURE ABOVE IS OF CAPOTE AND LEE IN KANSAS IN 1966. CAPOTE IS SIGNING COPIES OF IN COLD BLOOD. YOU CAN READ MY REVIEW OF CAPOTE IN KANSAS BY CLICKING ON THE BOOK COVER. I WAS WONDERING IF ANY OF YOU HAVE READ ANY OTHER BOOKS ABOUT THEM. I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS BECAUSE I AM INTRIGUED AFTER READING CAPOTE IN KANSAS TO READ MORE ABOUT THEM. ALSO I WANTED TO POST A QUESTION FROM THE READING GUIDE THAT I FOUND INTERESTING AND WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS. When a book is as good as To Kill a Mockingbird, is it “okay” that the author never wrote another one? Is one great book the equal of several lesser ones? As an artist, did Truman Capote or Harper Lee have an obligation to continue writing for the public? THANKS TO TLC BOOK TOURS AND KIM POWERS. YOU CAN READ THE FIRST CHAPTER HERE, YOU CAN VISIT KIM POWER’S WEBSITE HERE. YOU CAN ALSO FOLLOW THE REST OF THE TOUR HERE.
