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Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel

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.

As it follows 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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 150
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780679751823
  • Characters
  • P.B. Jones, Turner Boatwright, Alice Lee Langman, Kate McCloud, Denham Fouts
  • Settings
  • New York City, New York
  • Genres
  • fiction, classics, american, literature, novels
  • Release date
  • 1994