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Summer crossing is the first novel written by american author truman capote. In late 2004, a trove of truman capotes abandoned papers went up for auction at sothebys. Among his celebrated works are breakfast at tiffanys, a tree of night, the grass harp, summer crossing, a christmas memory, and in cold blood, widely considered onntiary in lansing, kansa. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introd.
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