Reception and Critical Analysis
The New York Herald Tribune lauded the novel as "Remarkable...infused with a tender laughter, charming human warmth, a feeling for the positive quality of life." The Atlantic Monthly commented that "The Grass Harp charms you into sharing the author's feeling that there is a special poetry - a spontaneity and wonder and delight - in lives untarnished by conformity and common sense." Sales of The Grass Harp reached 13,500, more than double those of either A Tree of Night or Local Color, two of Capote's prior works.
The Grass Harp was Truman Capote's favorite personal work, despite that it was critiqued as being overly sentimental.
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