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''Summer Crossing'' is Truman Capote's first novel, written during the 1940s. Capote eventually cast it aside and it was thought to be lost for over 50 years, but was eventually published in 2005. ==Conception and critical reception== Capote started writing ''Summer Crossing'' in 1943 when he was working for ''The New Yorker''. After taking an evening walk in Monroeville, Alabama, and being inspired to write his first published novel, ''Other Voices, Other Rooms'', he set aside the manuscript . On August 30, 1949, while vacationing in North Africa, Capote informed his publisher that he was approximately two-thirds through his first draft of ''Summer Crossing''. He optimistically spoke of finalizing the manuscript by the end of the year, even making a vow that he would not return to the United States until he did,〔Brinnin, John Malcolm. ''Truman Capote: Dear Heart, Old Buddy'' (1981) New York: Delacourte Press. ISBN 0-385-29509-X p 63〕 but he never submitted more than a first draft to his publisher.〔Clarke, Gerald. ''Capote: a Biography'' (1998) Carroll & Graff. ISBN 0-7867-1661-4 pp. 202 & 218〕 Capote had been making minor edits to the work over a period of approximately 10 years. Robert Linscott, Capote's senior editor at Random House, was unimpressed with the first draft. He said he thought it was a good novel, but that it didn't showcase Capote's "distinctive artistic voice."〔Clarke, Gerald. ''Capote: a Biography'' (1998) Carroll & Graff. ISBN 0-7867-1661-4 p. 218〕 After reading the draft over several times, Capote noted that the novel was "well written and its got a lot of style", but that he just didn't like it. In particular Capote began "to fear (novel ) was thin, clever, unfelt."〔Berendt, John. "Introduction" in Truman Capote, ''Other Voices, Other Rooms'' (2004/1948) Random House. ISBN 0-679-64322-2 p. xi.〕 Later Capote claimed to have destroyed the unpolished manuscript, along with several other notebooks of prose, as a part of this fit of harsh self-criticism.〔Clarke, Gerald. ''Capote: a Biography'' (1998) Carroll & Graff. ISBN 0-7867-1661-4 p. 218〕
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