Summer Crossing: A Novel by Truman Capote, a review from Times Literary Supplement by Stephen Abell.
"In his introduction to Music for Chameleons (1980), Truman Capote argues that his 'life ? as an artist, at least ? can be charted as precisely as a fever: the highs and lows, the very definite cycles'. He makes no reference, however, to his earliest novel, Summer Crossing, which he had composed in the first flush of artistic excitement as a young man in the 1940s. Previously undiscovered and now published more or less unedited, the novel is indeed a febrile attempt to capture the heat and passion both of a summer romance and the act of writing itself." Read the entire TLS review.