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Edition 30 (1948)

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Truman Capote とるーまん かぽーてぃ Winner

Shut a Final Door is a psychological short story about a young man whose self-absorption and careless talk leave him exposed to an invisible pressure. Beneath the easy urban banter, guilt and loneliness slowly take shape, and the story grows increasingly unsettling toward the end.

Behind the easy banter, an inescapable unease quietly rises.

320 pages
psychological fictionlonelinessguilturban uneaseshort story