Truman Capote is one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, the author of such bestsellers as Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Voices, Other Rooms, In Cold Blood and The Meadow Harp. We bring to your attention the debut novel written by the twenty-year-old Capote, when he first arrived from New Orleans to New York, and for sixty years was considered lost. The manuscript for "Summer Cruise" surfaced at Sotheby's in 2004 and was first published in 2006. In this novel, Capote, with unsurpassed stylistic grace, describes the dramatic events in the life of high-society debutante Grady McNeil, who remains in New York for the summer while her parents sail to Europe. She falls in love with a parking lot attendant and flirts with her childhood friend, remembers her past hobbies and dances in fashionable dance halls...