http://kimpowersbooks.com The History of Swimming Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:43:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This fictionalized account of their relationship and the story of two Southern backwoods residents who each became one of the biggest writers of their time - and stopped speaking to each other - makes for an engrossing, fantastic blend of strong characterization and gripping plot. Any who would categorize this ... http://kimpowersbooks.com/blog/2008/02/capote-reviewed-in-midwest-book-reviews/ “Powers’ approach is a fascinating one…Capote in Kansas will be a fine ghost story of the read-by-the-fire-on-a-cold-night type. Powers casts the book as a novel, not a memoir, and this is precisely what gives it its power.”—Infodad.com http://kimpowersbooks.com/blog/2008/01/capote-reviewed-on-infodadcom/ “Powers manipulates the novel into a fascinating combination of fact and fiction to deliver a powerful portrait of two of America’s literary icons…[A] riveting and haunting examination of two extraordinary lives.” The Advocate, Pegram, TN   http://kimpowersbooks.com/blog/2008/01/100/ Powers inserts this entertaining and imaginative story into the realities of Capote's and Lee's lives; as Powers writes in the Author's Note: "A surprising amount of the book is based on real events." He captures Capote's beloved cattiness and Lee's legendary loner status, fashioning fully-realized characters that engage the reader ... http://kimpowersbooks.com/blog/2008/01/capote-reviewed-on-hipsterbookclubcom/ Truman Capote in his waning days is plagued with nightmares - menacing appearances of the victims and killers from his fomenting real life pulseracer In Cold Blood -- and those nocturnal visions drive him back to the cast-off confidante and dear friend Harper Lee, who lived through and abetted the ... http://kimpowersbooks.com/blog/2008/01/capote-reviewed-in-daily-yummy/ Capote in Kansas is a richly detailed story that incorporates so much fact into the telling it acquires the harsh light and intimate detail of documentary.....The characters, including Nelle's sister Alice and Truman's maid Myrtle and his last boyfriend Danny, are so real that they almost speak from the pages ... http://kimpowersbooks.com/blog/2008/01/capote-reviewed-in-echo-mag-phoeniz-az/ Haunted authors cling in decline by Jim Provenzano               Capote in Kansas: a Ghost Story by Kim Powers; Carroll & Graf, $25. A number of prerequisite readings will make Kim Powers' novel Capote in Kansas even more enjoyable than it is, and it is.... touching and often hilarious.... Powers, whose own life became the ... http://kimpowersbooks.com/blog/2008/01/capote-reviewed-in-bay-area-reporter/ "...well-written and at times intriguing.... "Capote in Kansas" raises thought-provoking philosophical issues about how writers should use the lives of real people."  http://kimpowersbooks.com/blog/2008/01/capote-reviewed-in-st-louis-post-dispatch/ When the ghosts of the Clutter family from In Cold Blood literally come calling, a near-death Truman Capote reaches out to estranged writer pal Nelle Harper Lee for help in Capote in Kansas. Vérité Moment At one point, Kim Powers plausibly implies that Capote himself started the rumors that he was the ... http://kimpowersbooks.com/blog/2007/12/capote-reviewed-in-entertainment-weekly-2/ http://kimpowersbooks.com/blog/2007/12/82/