The implication in the final paragraph is that the "queer lady" beckoning from the window is Randolph in his old Mardi Gras costume. Joel runs away with Idabel but catches pneumonia and eventually returns to the Landing where he is nursed back to health by Randolph. When he finally is allowed to see his father, Joel is stunned to find he is a mute quadriplegic, having tumbled down a flight of stairs after being inadvertently shot by Randolph and nearly dying. Despite Joel's queries, the whereabouts of his father remain a mystery. He also sees a spectral "queer lady" with "fat dribbling curls" watching him from a top window. Arriving at Skully's Landing, a vast, decaying mansion on an isolated plantation in Mississippi, Joel meets his sullen stepmother Amy, debauched transvestite Randolph, and the defiant tomboy Idabel, a girl who becomes his friend. Joel is sent from New Orleans, Louisiana to live with his father who abandoned him at the time of his birth. The story focuses on the lonely and slightly effeminate 13-year-old boy Joel Harrison Knox following the death of his mother. Lua error in a at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Truman Capote took two years to write Other Voices, Other Rooms. Capote continued to work on the novel in North Carolina and eventually completed it in a rented cottage in Nantucket, Massachusetts. As friends, McCullers helped Capote locate an agent and a publisher (Marion Ives and Random House) for Other Voices, Other Rooms.
Capote joined McCullers at the artists' community, Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, New York to continue working on his novel. His budding literary fame put him in touch with fellow southerner and writer Carson McCullers. After leaving Alabama, he continued to work on the manuscript in New Orleans, Louisiana. He immediately cast aside his rough manuscript for Summer Crossing and took up writing Other Voices, Other Rooms. Truman Capote began writing the manuscript for Other Voices, Other Rooms after being inspired by a walk in the woods while he was living in Monroeville, Alabama.
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