Lost Capote novel surfaces: "An unpublished first novel by Truman Capote, long thought lost, has been found in a box of photographs and documents abandoned by the author in 1966.
The handwritten manuscript of the novel, Summer Crossing, goes on sale on Friday at Sotheby's in New York, where it carries an estimate of $60,000 to $80,000 (£33,000 to £44,000).
Summer Crossing, the story of a young socialite's summer in New York, was thought to have been abandoned by the then 20-year-old author in 1944, when he started to write the novel that would make his name, Other Voices, Other Rooms...
'It's kind of a pre-Breakfast at Tiffany's,' Sotheby's vice-president for books and manuscripts, Julian Caldwell told the Associated Press."
