The grass harp : including a tree of night and other stories
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- ISBN: 0679745572
- ISBN: 9780679745570
- Physical Description 216 pages
- Edition 1st Vintage International ed.
- Publisher New York : Vintage Books, 1993.
- Copyright ©1980
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General Note: | "Vintage International." |
Formatted Contents Note: | The grass harp -- Master misery -- Children on their birthdays -- Shut a final door -- Jug of silver -- Miriam -- The headless hawk -- My side of the matter -- A tree of night. |
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Summary
The Grass Harp
From the bestselling author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's comes the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who take up residence in a tree house. "Remarkable. . . . Infused with a tender laughter, charming human warmth, [and] a feeling for the positive quality of life." -- New York Herald Tribune Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the tale of three misfits who move into a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the sacredness of love, "that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life." This volume also includes Capote's A Tree of Night and Other Stories , which the Washington Post called "unobtrusively beautiful...a superlative book."