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Kim Powers
Dear Librarian, It's probably a story you've heard before, maybe even lived: I spent every Saturday of my childhood in the library. After I check out my stack of books, I'd go to the movies. The next Saturday, I'd start all over again. Now, I have a book of my own to put on those shelves: CAPOTE IN KANSAS: A GHOST STORY. It took root all those years ago, when I first saw the movies of To Kill a Mockingbird and In Cold Blood. (Don't hold it against me that I saw the movies before I read the books!) The questions I had way back then found their way into my new novel: Was Boo Radley a real person? Why didn't Harper Lee write another book? What did she and Truman Capote see in Kansas, that changed their lives forever? And what did the ghosts of the Clutters think about being brought back to life, in ink instead of flesh and blood? Publishers Weekly calls CAPOTE IN KANSAS "offbeat" and "intriguing"; The Advocate "dark and captivating." Entertainment Weekly says: "Powers astutely summons the intense sorrow behind a life-long friendship gone awry." And Oscar Hijuelos writes it "will haunt you long after the last page." Many of you already have my memoir The History of Swimming on your shelves. Now, I hope you'll order CAPOTE IN KANSAS as well, for all of us – not just kids – who'd rather read and imagine than anything else. Kim Powers kimpowersbooks.com
Capote in Kansas / Kim Powers / Carroll & Graf / Hardcover; 304 Pages
Price: $25.00 / ISBN: 978-0786720330 / Published: September, 2007 Kim Powers is one of our featured authors this week. Click here to view his reader comments and feel free to use them in your newsletters. |