Other voices, other rooms (New [ed.])

When Joel Knox's mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the Deep South to live with a father he has never seen.

But once he gets there, everyone is curiously evasive when Joel asks to see his father.

Truman Capote's first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a brilliant, searching study of homosexuality set in a shimmering landscape of heat, mystery and decadence.