“Well,” she slowly started to say. “and am I supposed to care? I really don’t, you know.”
“What the hell do you mean care? Who the hell do you think you are? Care about yourself. I’m nothing to you.”
War is over. For the upper class of New York, of which Grady belongs to, this means they can finally enjoy life free from worry… But it’s her last summer before her wedding night. It’s the last summer for the 17-year-old to be young, wild and free before she becomes part of society. And she’s going to enjoy it, all right. She wants to rebel and party all night long for one last time, even though this means she’ll burn her fingers on occasion. The entire New York is laid out in front of her, from neon ads and clubs, to bars and streets: the world is her oyster.
Despite her arranged marriage to her best friend, Peter, a rich but strange guy, she falls in love with Jewish parking attendant Clyde. He’s blunt and poor and they’re quite the odd couple.
She spends her last summer of freedom indulging in love and the feeling that she can achieve anything.
Truman Capote’s first novel had been thought to be lost for a long time, until one day it was found in a cardboard box by accident. His first work tells a story about summer, youth and love and the style is casual without being too superficial. It’s a perfect summer free from authority and order. The best thing about it? The last (and most exciting) part of the book is missing. And so it falls to us to invent our own ending.
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