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Answered Prayers
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Series: Vintage International
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ISBN10: 0679751823
ISBN13: 9780679751823
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Mar 29 1994
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780679751823
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Mar 29 1994
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Although Truman Capote's last novel was unfinished at the time of his death, its surviving portions offer a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time. - Includes the story La Cote Basque featured in the major FX series Feud: Capote Vs. the Swans.
Prose that makes the heart sing and the narrative fly. --The New York Times Book Review
Tracing the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La Côte Basque, from literary salons to high-priced whorehouses. It takes in calculating beauties and sadistic husbands along with such real-life supporting characters as Colette, the Duchess of Windsor, Montgomery Clift, and Tallulah Bankhead. Above all, this malevolently funny book displays Capote at his most relentlessly observant and murderously witty.
Tracing the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La Côte Basque, from literary salons to high-priced whorehouses. It takes in calculating beauties and sadistic husbands along with such real-life supporting characters as Colette, the Duchess of Windsor, Montgomery Clift, and Tallulah Bankhead. Above all, this malevolently funny book displays Capote at his most relentlessly observant and murderously witty.
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