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04/12/2004
Capote manuscript to go on sale
A lost manuscript by American author Truman Capote is to be auctioned in New York.
Entitled Summer Crossing, Capote had claimed he had destroyed it but it was recently discovered amongst papers found in the Brooklyn apartment he occupied at the peak of his writing career.
The unfinished work tells the story of a young woman left in New York by her parents who are traveling in Europe.
Capote is thought to have started work on the book in the 1940s - a whole decade before his most famous work Breakfast at Tiffany's - but never finished it.
Sotheby's estimate that the book will fetch between €52,000 and €76,000.
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