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"When was it that I first heard of the grass harp? Long before that autumn when we lived in the Paternoster tree, so in an earlier autumn, and it was of course Dolly who told me about it." Eleven-year-old Collin comes to live with his eccentric aunts Verena and Dolly in a Southern town after the death of his parents. Verena is a domineering realist, while Dolly is a dreamer who, along with her black friend Catherine, brews medicine from forest herbs using old recipes. A conflict arises between the aunts when Verena senses a lucrative opportunity in Dolly's collecting passion and wants to commercialize it. To defend her personal happiness from her sister, Dolly takes refuge in a treehouse with Collin and Catherine. Verena, the sheriff, and the town dignitaries try to force the three runaways back to reality, down from the tree. In the end, there is a battle and a victory—a final night they spend in their refuge, then they leave their treehouse voluntarily, knowing that nothing will ever be the same again.
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The Grass Harp, Truman Capote
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- 1966
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- Title
- The Grass Harp
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Truman Capote
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 1966
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0140025634
- ISBN13
- 9780140025637
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Love, Contemporary Fiction, Classics, Short Stories, USA, American Literature, Literary Fiction, America, Teens, Narration, American South, Small Town, Americana, Southern Gothic, Truman Capote
- Original title
- The grass harp.
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- "When was it that I first heard of the grass harp? Long before that autumn when we lived in the Paternoster tree, so in an earlier autumn, and it was of course Dolly who told me about it." Eleven-year-old Collin comes to live with his eccentric aunts Verena and Dolly in a Southern town after the death of his parents. Verena is a domineering realist, while Dolly is a dreamer who, along with her black friend Catherine, brews medicine from forest herbs using old recipes. A conflict arises between the aunts when Verena senses a lucrative opportunity in Dolly's collecting passion and wants to commercialize it. To defend her personal happiness from her sister, Dolly takes refuge in a treehouse with Collin and Catherine. Verena, the sheriff, and the town dignitaries try to force the three runaways back to reality, down from the tree. In the end, there is a battle and a victory—a final night they spend in their refuge, then they leave their treehouse voluntarily, knowing that nothing will ever be the same again.